If we ever feel we lack the strength to keep fighting against injustice in all its guises then keep returning to this splendid 11 or so minutes and it will return and more.
‘In 1956 Paul Robeson was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. His defiant answers to baiting by right-wing politicians were dramatised by James Earl Jones in this reproduction: “Why do you not stay in Russia, Mr. Robeson?” “Because 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. And no fascist-minded people will drive me from it. Is that clear?”‘
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