"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."

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

Paul Robeson

#Country Quotes #Father Quotes #People Quotes

“I've been working with music videos and commercials, they are naturally very music driven and visual driven. So that feels like my natural element to be working with that.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.”
“You can pay for school, but you can't buy class”

Source : Song: Swagga Like Us
“Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.”
“Conceit is God's gift to little men.”
“I was always pretty funny with my friends.”
“Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.”
“Where are these rational practices to be taught and acquired? Not within the four walls of a bare building, in which formality predominates... But in the nursery, play-ground, fields, gardens, workshops, manufactures, museums and class-rooms. ...The facts collected from all these sources will be concentrated, explained, discussed, made obvious to all, and shown in their direct application to practice in all the business of life.”

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