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 RANDOLPH
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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 have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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