Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHBillions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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We 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…
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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 must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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