I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI 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 RANDOLPHA 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHPatriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHJustice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIf 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIf 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIn every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHBillions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH