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The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of appeals, is that when I am abroad I speak out against the injustices against the Negro people of this land.

— Paul Robeson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

— William Lacy Clay, Jr.

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

— James A. Baldwin

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.

— Bill Haslam

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

— Anthony Braxton

What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.

— F. W. de Klerk

I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.

— Marcus Garvey

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me.

— Stokely Carmichael

I have nothing to do with racism in America; it was here when I got here.

— Paul Mooney

✗Opposing Perspectives

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.

— Paul Robeson