#on

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

#communist party #continued #first #found #home

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

#colored #die #everywhere #four #going

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

#audiences #concert #denmark #did #england

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

#baked #born #bread #crossed #delaware

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

— Paul Robeson

#american #american people #among #been #korean

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

#again #against #am #appeals #court

Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, sometime, someplace, they had managed for a moment to touch another human soul and understand it. ↗

— James Jones

#drunkenness #dreams

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

#citizenship #efforts #fields #fight #full

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

— Paul Robeson

#millions #most #must #our #over

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. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#assure #democracies #discrimination #either #ever