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

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

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

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.

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.