I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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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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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro’s protest.
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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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