Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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