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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."

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"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."

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"In quietness we find inner peace."

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"If you wish to possess your soul, be patient."

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"Don't react to any fuming argument."

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"If your heart is your home, you can be happy anywhere."

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"The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!"

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"It is our responsibility to pray for a peaceful world."

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"If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul."

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"Thy best of rest is sleep,And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'stThy death, which is no more."

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"Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe."

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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."
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"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."
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"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."
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"The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people."
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"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too."
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