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.’
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHPatriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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 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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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 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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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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If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you’ve got to resist it. You’ve got to resent it. You’ve got to fight against it.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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