Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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 are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy 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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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I 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.’
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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