Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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