Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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 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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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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 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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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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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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