If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you’ve got to resist it. You’ve got to resent it. You’ve got to fight against it.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHSince 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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 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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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