I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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 am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. But certainly, there can be no true national unity where one-tenth of the population is denied their basic rights as American citizens.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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