I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHBillions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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 must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Freedom is never granted; 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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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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