At Every Step The Vast Majority Have

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.

Like Any Other People, Like Fathers, Mothers, Sons And Daughters In Every Land, When The Issue Of Peace Or War Has Been Put Squarely To The American People, They Have Registered For Peace.

The Talents Of An Artist, Small Or Great, Are God-given. They've Nothing To Do With The Private Person; They're Nothing To Be Proud Of. They're Just A Sacred Trust... Having Been Given, I Must Give. Man Shall Not Live By Bread Alone, And What The Farmer Does I Must Do. I Must Feed The People - With My Songs.

I Do Not Hesitate One Second To State Clearly And Unmistakably: I Belong To The American Resistance Movement Which Fights Against American Imperialism, Just As The Resistance Movement Fought Against Hitler.

I Found A Special Eagerness Among The Younger, And I Am Sorry To Say, The More Intelligent Negroes, To Dismiss The Spiritual As Something Beneath Their New Pride In Their Race. It Is As If They Wanted To Put It Behind Them As Something To Be Ashamed Of.