Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

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

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

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.