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"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
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"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."
"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
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