In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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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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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro’s protest.
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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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