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Quote by Paul Robeson
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up an

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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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

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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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Peace
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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East. – Paul Robeson

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. – Herbert Kaufman

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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault. – Branch Rickey

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Ill know how to die with courage that is easier than living. – Georg Buchner

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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? – Logan P. Smith

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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. – Brian W. Aldiss

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Youd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three. – John Podhoretz

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