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.
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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I don’t ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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