I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLoyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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 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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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