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.
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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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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Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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