Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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