Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHDebs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, ‘We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.’
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you’ve got to resist it. You’ve got to resent it. You’ve got to fight against it.
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