I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.

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

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

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

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

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

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.