#pre

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 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

#american people #been #feeling #i #peace

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#aristocratic #atheism #being #crime #great

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. ↗

— Brooks Robinson

#contract #glove #last #loudest #moments

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#antithesis #brief #egoism #idealism #interpretation

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#bands #been #culture #i #impressed

No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland. ↗

— Frank Robinson

#black #cause #cleveland #i #increase

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#army #crime #criminal #disloyalty #felt

The Massachusetts Land Bank, during Colonial times, prospered, and brought prosperity to the community, until it was forcibly suppressed by special act of Parliament. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#bank #brought #colonial #community #during