Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHWe 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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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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 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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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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