In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.
Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.