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Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

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Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

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

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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear

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The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

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In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea to be African.

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And today the Negro people watch Africa and Asia and closely follow the liberation struggles of the rising peoples in these lands.

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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

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For many years I have so labored and I can say modestly that my name is very much honored all over Africa, in my struggles for their independence.

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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.

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At one point American peace sentiment helped to stop Truman from pursuing use of the atom bomb in Korea and helped force the recall of MacArthur.

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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.

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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.

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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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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed.. . . I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

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You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

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The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

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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.

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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.

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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.

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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.

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Once we are joined together in the fight for peace we will have to talk to each other and tell the truth about each other. How else can peace be won

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The telling of these truths is an important part of our work in building a strong and broad peace movement in the United States.

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Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.

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