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Paul Robeson

"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."

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"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."

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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

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"Every travel gives me new thought into life."

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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

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"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

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"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."

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"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

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"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."

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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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"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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"Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely? Never! I can assure you, they will never fight against either the Soviet Union or the peoples' democracies."
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"At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war."
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"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."
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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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"Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III."
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"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."
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