Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLoyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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 granted; it is won.
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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 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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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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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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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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