You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction..

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on ….

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 be….

I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America..

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

Artists are the radical voice of civilization..

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….

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

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

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

I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that onc….

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….

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….

My future depends mostly upon myself..

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work ….

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

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-f….

With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such digni….

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialis….

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and w….

Films make me into some cheap turn...You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top..