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Paul Robeson Sr — Part 26
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HARRIET TUBLIN and SOUJOURNER TRUTH or those in the ghettes
of sersaw or those in the hills of Israel or those fighting
for Hungarian independence. e here in the United States in
1951 must again sacrifice with them for peace and friendship
ani be able to get along with the other peoples of the world. -
We who know these other peoples and at the same time cons
from these other peoples, must expiain during every hour of
_ the day and must find methods to convince all to join with
us ao that they may know that of which we speak. oS
They understood in the times of ROOSEVELT, they
understood a few years ago the ROOSEVELT who stated that
Stalingrad and its heroic people -= tha syubol of the
Soviet people -- saved civilization. Not long ago I was
in that glorious land. it was thus in Poland, China,
Kumania, Bulgaria, Albania, end in your beloved Hungary.
We must explain to the American people that all of these
people are building a new way of life for themselves, which
way of life built by workers, farmers and others and
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dedicated to a new sociaty.-
, And thus my forebearers from far away Africa
look to modern China and they too desire independence,
liberty, ani a better way of life. Likewise the mass
of my people here in the United States, deep in the South
and a week ago in Cincinnati, desire not second or
third grade citizenship but a full life and not race
hatred end death. _ oo
Together, in the strongest sense of unity,
we must struggle for an America which was envisioned by
our forebearers in the constitution and in the Bill of
Kights and by continual sacrifice of our dearest citizens. -
Our immediate responsib#lities however are important.
The movement of the mass always for the injust and these
days our progressives and our workers have gained time
for peace through the Armistice conferences which have
started in Korea and in them we see enormous possibilities.
We must use these possibilities for the liberation of DuBOIS,
the freeing of PATTERSON, the repeal of the Smith law |
in order to save our constitution. a, .
They have attacked our rights of free speech,
The leadersof our workers are sitting behind iron bars _
or are suffering prosecution like GUS HALL, CLAUDIA JONES,
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