My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

The course of history can be changed but not halted.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.

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