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This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, 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

Paul Robeson African Americans America Equal Rights Fighting Injustice Race Race Relations Truth

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

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson American People Always

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson Peace American People

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

Paul Robeson Peace Struggle Fight

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

Paul Robeson Travel Today I Am

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson People Die You

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson Fight Stand Up People

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson Silence Speak Artist

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

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Paul Robeson Deep American Drive

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

~ Paul Robeson

Paul Robeson Responsibility World See
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