Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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The 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.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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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 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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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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