The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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