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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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 Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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