Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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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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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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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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