“I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR — the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.”

—  Paul Robeson

"’I Love Above All, Russia,’ Robeson Says," Afro-American, (25 June 1949), p. 7

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