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• At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

  Paul Robeson

  War, Ideas, Majority

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• I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

  Paul Robeson

  Voice, Want, Melody

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

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• You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

  Paul Robeson

  Diction, Actors, Medal

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

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• I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Class, America

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

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• I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Loyal, Unions

  "I Love Above All, Russia,' Robeson Says". "Afro-American", p. 7, June 25, 1949.

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• Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

  Paul Robeson

  Freedom, Hard

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• I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

  Paul Robeson

  Spiritual, Sorry, Pride

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

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• Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Ballet, Heritage, Steps

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• 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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• Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

  Paul Robeson

  Sports, Art, Struggle

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

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• Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

  Paul Robeson

  Summer, Sweet, Morning

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

  Paul Robeson

  Government, People, United States

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• 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

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• I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

  Paul Robeson

  Powerful, People, Goal

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

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• In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive document, back through the years, his contributions to the science of our world society remain invaluable. One reverently speaks of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin—the shapers of humanity’s richest present and future.

  Paul Robeson

  Our World, Years, Humanity

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

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• But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

  Paul Robeson

  People, Desire, Deep Desire

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• And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

  Paul Robeson

  Party, Home, Leader

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• Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

  Paul Robeson

  Play, Film, Let Me

  "The Whole World in His Hands: A Pictorial Biography of Paul Robeson". Book by Susan Robeson, p. 92, 1981.

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• And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

  Paul Robeson

  War, People, Gentleman

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

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• The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

  Paul Robeson

  War, People, Korean

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• I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.

  Paul Robeson

  Struggle, People, Feelings

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