Paul Robeson Quotes

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  • 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.

    Powerful   People   Goal  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • 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.

    Testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956.
  • Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.

    Summer   Sweet   Morning  
    Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.15, Beacon Press
  • 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.

  • Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

  • The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

  • 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.

    Long   People   Musical  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.

    Spiritual   Sorry   Pride  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

    Music   Play   Ideas  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

  • Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.

  • Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

    "Rose McGowan Opens the Women's Convention with a Powerful Speech" by Claire Valentine, www.papermag.com. October 28, 2017.
  • 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, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

    Freedom   Hard  
  • We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

    "Paul Robeson, Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism".
  • 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.

    Sports   Art   Struggle  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

    Music   Song   Land  
  • Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

    Art   Creativity   Should  
  • 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.

    Party   Home   Leader  
  • The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person; they're nothing to be proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.

    Song   Artist   Men  
  • Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

  • I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

    Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press
  • If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.

    People   Together   Want  
    Daily Worker, November 15, 1945.
  • I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.

    Country   Loyal   Unions  
    "I Love Above All, Russia,' Robeson Says". "Afro-American", p. 7, June 25, 1949.
  • At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

    War   Ideas   Majority  
  • Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism.

    Gun   Order   White  
    "Paul Robeson Speaks: The Negro and The Soviet Union". Book by Phillip S. Foner, p. 378, 1978.
  • As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • 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.

    War   People   Gentleman  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

    America   Culture   Ifs  
    Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge
  • I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of fear. My weapons are peaceful, for it is only by peace that peace can be attained. The song of freedom must prevail.

    Song   Voice   Inspire  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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