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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Freedom is never granted; 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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy 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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