Tagged: Princeton

you must take a side: freedom or slavery.

“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.'”

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

“Einstein had been nominated for the Nobel Prize in ten of the previous twelve years (1909-1920), yet it wasn’t until he had been hailed as a world-renowned celebrity that the Nobel committee agreed to award him their prize. Years later, Irving Wallace, the author of The Prize, interviewed Sven Hedin, one of the Nobel judges, who acknowledged that anti-Semitism had influenced the judges to vote repeatedly against an award for Einstein (Wallace, The Writing of One Novel). Hedin later publicly supported the Nazis and was a friend of Goring, Himmler, and Hitler.”

Source: Fred Jerome and Rodger Taylor. Einstein On Race and Racism. pg. 4. 2005.