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

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.

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.

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.

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.