Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy 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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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