Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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.
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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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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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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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