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

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independence, Reason, Africa

• 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 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Audience

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Movement

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Today, Speak

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Human Being

• 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

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

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, American

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, World, American

• 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

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Independence

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

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Desire

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

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Idea, War

• 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

  Topics in Honesty, Politics

  Tags in United States

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

  Paul Robeson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Protect

Paul Robeson (26)

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

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