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| Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was an Afro-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.... |
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106538&author=Robeson"e=Against+this+background+the+jealousy+of+the+protagonist+becomes+more+credible%2C+the+blows+to+his+pride+more+understandable%2C+the+final+collapse+of+his+personal%2C+individual+world+more+inevitable.+but+beyond+the+personal+tragedy+%2C+the+terrible+agony+of+Othello%2C+the+irretrievabilty%28sic%29of+his+world%2C+the+complete+destruction+of+all+his+trusted+and+scared+values-all+these+suggest+the+shattering+of+a+universe.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106541&author=Robeson"e=The+artist+must+elect+to+fight+for+freedom+or+slavery.+I+have+made+my+choice+i+had+no+alternative.+the+history+of+the+capsulize+era+is+characterized+by+the+degradation+of+my+people%3A+despoiled+of+there+lands%2C+their+true+culture+destroyed...denied+equal+protection+of+the+law%2C+and+deprived+their+rightful+place+in+the+respect+of+their+fellows.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106532&author=Robeson"e=I+found+a+special+eagerness+among+the+younger%2C+and+I+am+sorry+to+say%2C+the+more+intelligent+Negroes%2C+to+dismiss+the+spiritual+as+something+beneath+their+new+pride+in+their+race.+it+is+as+if+they+wanted+to+put+it+behind+them+s+something+to+be+ashamed+of...%22%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106533&author=Robeson"e=For+the+first+time+since+I+began+acting%2C+I+feel+that+I%27ve+found+my+place+in+the+world%2C+that+there%27s+something+out+of+my+own+culture+which+i+can+express+and+perhaps+help+others+preserve..i+have+found+out+now+that+the+African+natives+had+a+definite+culture+a+long+way+beyond+the+culture+of+the+Stone+age...an+integrated+thing%2C+which+is+still+unspoiled+by+western+influences...I+think+the+Americans+will+be+amazed+to+find+how+many+of+the+modern+dance+steps+are+relics+of+African+heritage.+Robeson%2C+Susan.+Paul+Robeson%2C+The+Whole+World+in+His+Hands+pg72%281981%29&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106536&author=Robeson"e=I+was+deeply+fascinating+to+watch+how+strikingly+American+audiences+from+coast+to+coast+found+Shakespeare%27s+Othello+painfully+immediate+in+it%27s+unfolding+of+evil%2C+innocence%2C+passion%2C+dignity+and+nobility+and+contemporary+in+it%27s+overtones+of+a+clash+of+cultures%2C+of+the+partial+acceptance+of+and+a+consequent+effect+upon%2C+one+of+a+minority+group.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106537&author=Robeson"e=One+does+not+need+a+very+long+racial+memory+to+loose+on+oneself+in+such+a+part...As+I+act%2C+civilization+falls+away+from+me.+My+plight+becomes+real%2C+the+horrors+terrible+facts.+I+feel+the+terror+of+the+slave+mart%2C+the+degradation+of+man+bought+and+sold+into+slavery.+Well+I+am+the+son+of+an+emancipated+slave+and+the+stories+of+old+father+are+vivid+in+my+table+of+memory.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106540&author=Robeson"e=Could+I+say+that+the+reason+that+I+am+here+today%2C+you+know%2C+from+the+mouth+of+the+State+Department+itself%2C+is%3A+I+should+not+be+allowed+to+travel+because+I+have+struggled+for+years+for+the+independence+of+the+colonial+peoples+of+Africa.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106542&author=Robeson"e=If+the+United+States+and+the+United+Nations+truly+want+peace+and+security+let+them+fulfill+the+hopes+of+the+common+people+everywhere+%E2%80%93+let+them+work+together+to+accomplish+on+a+worldwide+scale%2C+precisely+the+kind+of+democratic+association+of+free+people+which+characterizes+the+Soviet+Union+today.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106543&author=Robeson"e=I+am+truly+happy+that+I+am+able+to+travel+from+time+to+time+to+the+USSR+%E2%80%94+the+country+I+love+above+all.+I+always+have+been%2C+I+am+now+and+will+always+be+a+loyal+friend+of+the+Soviet+Union.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=106544&author=Robeson"e=From+what+I+have+already+seen+of+the+workings+of+the+Soviet+Government%2C+I+can+only+say+that+anybody+who+lifts+his+hand+against+it+ought+to+be+shot%21+It+is+the+government%27s+duty+to+put+down+any+opposition+to+this+really+free+society+with+a+firm+hand%2C+and+I+hope+they+will+always+do+it%2C+for+I+already+regard+myself+at+home+here.+This+is+home+to+me.+I+feel+more+kinship+to+the+Russian+people+under+their+new+society+than+I+ever+felt+anywhere+else.+It+is+obvious+that+there+is+no+terror+here%2C+that+all+the+masses+of+every+race+are+contented+and+support+their+government.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}