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

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 mak….

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 Stat….

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world..

I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom or the words that might inspire hope and courage in the face of….

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

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are..

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play o….

Freedom is a hard-bought thing..

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause..

At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war..

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for sl….

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 ….

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive doc….

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many..

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….

Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may….

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live free….

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility..

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever..

As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity.