Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHJustice 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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 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 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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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 have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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