Paul Robeson on Picking His Battles

“The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.”

Paul Robeson, Speech at antifascist rally, Royal Albert Hall, London, 24 June 1937

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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