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You are the non-patriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

— Paul Robeson

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I am the son of an emancipated slave and the stories of old father are vivid on the tablets of my memory.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

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.

The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

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