"The artist must elect to fight for Freedom…" — Paul Robeson

"The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery."

— Paul Robeson

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72 Quotes by Paul Robeson

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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture…
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here…
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some…
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war…
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world…
Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.
I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in…
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but…
As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the…

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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