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.’
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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