Paul Robeson Quotes About Social Justice

Quotes about: Social Justice

• My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.

  Paul Robeson

  Inspirational, Country, Father

  Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee, 12 June 1956

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

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Silence

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

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Humanity

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

• This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died. Here we were born and here we will stay.

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Lying, Father

• I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.

  Paul Robeson

  Justice, Diversity, Achievement

  Paul Robeson (1998). “Here I Stand”, p.35, Beacon Press

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