Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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