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
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. – Paul Robeson
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population. – Paul Robeson
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States. – Paul Robeson