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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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 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 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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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