Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never given; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLoyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHJustice 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHWe 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIn every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI 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.’
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHWe must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions…
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH