I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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 Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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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