I don’t ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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 am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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