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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.’

A. Philip Randolph

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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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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 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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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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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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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