Quotes of Paul Robeson - somelinesforyou

“ This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still secondclass citizens in this United States of America ”

- Paul Robeson

“ 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

“ The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ 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

“ 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. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ 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

“ If Negro freedom is taken away, or that of any minority group, the freedom of all the people is taken away. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ If Negro freedom is taken away, or that of any minority group, the freedom of all the people is taken away. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay. ”

- Paul Robeson

“ As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ”

- Paul Robeson

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

- Paul Robeson

“ 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

“ 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

“ The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many. ”

- Paul Robeson
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