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I Did A Long Concert Tour In England And Denmark And Sweden, And I Also Sang For The Soviet People, One Of The Finest Musical Audiences In The World.

The Answer To Injustice Is Not To Silence The Critic But To End The Injustice.

We Ask For Nothing That Is Not Ours By Right, And Herein Lies The Great Moral Power Of Our Demand.

Every Artist, Every Scientist, Must Decide Now Where He Stands. He Has No Alternative. There Is No Standing Above The Conflict On Olympian Heights. There Are No Impartial Observers. Through The Destruction, In Certain Countries, Of The Greatest Of Man's Literary Heritage, Through The Propagation Of False Ideas Of Racial And National Superiority, The Artist, The Scientist, The Writer Is Challenged. The Struggle Invades The Formerly Cloistered Halls Of Our Universities And Other Seats Of Learning. The Battlefront Is Everywhere. There Is No Sheltered Rear.

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.