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

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.

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.