Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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 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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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