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

Other quotes by Paul Robeson

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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Travel
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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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Peace
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Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labors rights and the fight for peace. – Paul Robeson

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Peace
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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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Courage

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than anothers fear. – Umberto Eco

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Courage

I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years. – Marilyn Hacker

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Courage

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. – Tori Amos

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Courage

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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. – George Santayana

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Life

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it. – Samuel Johnson

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Experience

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups. – Charles Browder

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Creativity

No one does anything from a single motive. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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