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.
Paul RobesonWe ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.
Paul RobesonLike 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.
Paul RobesonWhen I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.
Paul Robeson