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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.

A. Philip Randolph

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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Body Country Debs Free Merely Mind Nominal People
The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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Bond Economic Financial Float Franchise New Organize Port Resource Tax
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Class Come Nation Race Salvation
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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Capital Country Fight Loyal March Nation People Slogan Suggest Ten Thousand
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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Advance Country Defense Denied National Play Population Right Seek Unity
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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Day Die Great History Hopelessness Labor Live Movement Remember Single Stick Trial Understand
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Abroad Country Democracy Gun Home Mood People Shoulder
Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Freedom Given never Won
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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Cloth Cost High Interest Oppose Party Republican Wage Worker
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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Certain Communist Country Express March People Person Trouble True View White
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Beneficiary Destroy Every Truth Expect System
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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Continous Exact Fact Final Freedom Given Justice never Struggle
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Equal Must Free Order People
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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Capitalist Develop Emancipation Industrial Manufacture North Rise Slave Spokesman View
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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Done Inner Propitious Right Satisfaction Through
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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Civil Community Democratic Economic High Humble Person Weak

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