You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external satisfactions, and the moment he becomes frustrated in his search for these, he begins to develop neurotic symptoms, to feel that life is not worth living, and, in chronic cases, to take his own life.

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

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity