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 RANDOLPHI 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 RANDOLPHNegroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIn every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHMen cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSalvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHPatriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIf 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.
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHDebs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHA 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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHJustice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never given; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH