Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson (9 April 1898 – 23 January 1976) was an American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional athlete, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism. wiki

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- As quoted in Paul Robeson : The Whole World in His Hands (1981) by Susan Robeson, p. 72
- The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice.

- I had no alternative. The history of the capitalist era is characterized by the degradation of my people: despoiled of their lands, their true culture destroyed… denied equal protection of the law, and deprived their rightful place in the respect of their fellows.






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