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Yes, all Africa remembers that it was Litvinov who stood alone beside Haile Selassie in Geneva, when Mussolini's sons flew with the blessings of the Pope to drop bombs on Ethiopian women and children. Africa remembers that it was the Soviet Union which fought the attempts of the Smuts to annex Southwest Africa to the slave reservation of the Union of South Africa, if the peoples of the Congo refuse to mine the uranium for the atom bombs made in Jim Crow factories in the United States; if all these peoples demand an end to floggings, an end to the farce of 'trusteeship' in the former Italian colonies.The Soviet Union is the friend of the African and the West Indian peoples.

Paul Robeson Speaks - 1978, Phillip S, Foner.

History, Humanity, War, Patriotism, Ethics

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My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Politics, Power, Patriotism, Ethics

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

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Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism.

Paul Robeson Speaks - 1978, Phillip S, Foner.

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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

Politics, War, Patriotism

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This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

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Like 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.

Peace, War, Patriotism, Ethics

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In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

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For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve..i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age - an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences. I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage.

The Whole World in His Hands - 1981 by Susan Robeson

Humanity, Politics, Patriotism, Movies

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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.

Patriotism, Ethics

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