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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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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

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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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Peace
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Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III. – Paul Robeson

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Courage
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You cant test courage cautiously. – Annie Dillard

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Courage

What I love about the East End is that theres a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance. – Eddie Marsan

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Courage

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. – Confucius

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Courage

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. – Edward Weeks

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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it. – Proverb

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A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. – Laura Bush

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley

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Its an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. – Robert Redford

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