The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHIf 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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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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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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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 given; it is won.
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