In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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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I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
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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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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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