I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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 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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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