Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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