“For [Paul] Robeson, the taste of irony may have been bitter-sweet, given the Jim Crow conditions his cousins, friends, and others still faced in Princeton’s black community. ‘It means so little when a man like me wins some success,’ he told a reporter from Winconsin. ‘Where is the benefit when a small class of Negroes makes money and can live well? It may all be encouraging, but it has no deeper significance. I feel this way because I have cousins who can neither read nor write. I have had a chance. They have not. That is the only difference.'”

January 22, 2015

Source: Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor. Einstein On Race and Racism. pg. 58. 2005.

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