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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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