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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHJustice 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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