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 RANDOLPH
Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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.
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Freedom is never granted; 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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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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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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