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

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

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.