Paul Robeson Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

  Paul Robeson

  Dream, Stars, Real

  "Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974".

• To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.

  Paul Robeson

  Dream, Freedom, Children

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.108, Beacon Press

• Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

  Paul Robeson

  Travel, Years, Independence

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

• I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Struggle, Fighting

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.42, Beacon Press

• If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.

  Paul Robeson

  People, Together, Want

  Daily Worker, November 15, 1945.

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