Paul Robeson Quotes

• My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I am going to stay here and have a piece of it, just like you.

  Paul Robeson

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• 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

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  Tags in People, Courage

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

  Paul Robeson

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• Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in World, Peace

• Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples’ democracies.

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  Tags in People, Never

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

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in Join, Peace, Responsibility

• 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

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Peace, Peace of Mind

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

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in Government, Protect

• This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in America

  Tags in People

• The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in Reason, Today, Speak

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

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in People, American

• My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington’s troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Time

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Peace

• In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in Time, Human Being

• 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.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in American, Desire

• 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

  Topics in America

  Tags in Feeling

• 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

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Mankind, Powerful, Movement, Peace

• I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in American, Movement

• I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

  Paul Robeson

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  Tags in World, Audience

• 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

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  Tags in People, Independence

Paul Robeson (26)

Birth:	9th April, 1898
Death:	23rd January, 1976
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Singer

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