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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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"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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