Paul Robeson Quotes


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. - Paul Robeson


You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction. - Paul Robeson


Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III. - Paul Robeson


Yes, I heard my people singing!--in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews--and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in the very sermons of my father, for in the Negro's speech there is much of the phrasing and rhythms of folk-song. The great, soaring gospels we love are merely sermons that are sung; and as we thrill to such gifted gospel singers as Mahalia Jackson, we hear the rhythmic eloquence of our preachers, so many of whom, like my father, are masters of poetic speech. - Paul Robeson


We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility. - Paul Robeson


Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. - Paul Robeson


Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man. - Paul Robeson


This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. - Paul Robeson


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