Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

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.

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

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

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