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.
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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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 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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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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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