Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing.

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.

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

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

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

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.