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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSince 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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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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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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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 have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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