Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIn every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro’s protest.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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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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