Paul Robeson Quotes and its meanings

What does Paul Robeson write about?

Paul Robeson has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about courage, peace, sports & travel. People always share Courage quotes, Peace quotes, sports & travel from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Paul Robeson?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Paul Robeson.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.