Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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