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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from t

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. – Paul Robeson

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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. – Paul Robeson

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Courage
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace. – Paul Robeson

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

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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

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I was born to travel and write verse. – Theophile Gautier

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If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that its not the peopleand its not the things, its travel and experiencing different environments. – Marc Newson

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Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. Id really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but its the wrong century. – Alan Dean Foster

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Theres a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. Ill not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – Ill be needing that to die in. – Helen Hayes

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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. – James A. Garfield

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