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

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

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.

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

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

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.