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.

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

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.

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

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

You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.

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.