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

— 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.

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.

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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