I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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