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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.

A. Philip Randolph

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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Freedom Grant One Liner Won
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Equal Must Free Order People
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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Day Die Great History Hopelessness Labor Live Movement Remember Single Stick Trial Understand
Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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Body Country Debs Free Merely Mind Nominal People
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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Class Creed Debs Debt Greater National People Race Sex Speakman Struggle Work
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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Bond Economic Financial Float Franchise New Organize Port Resource Tax
Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Appropriate Billion Count Dollar Little Nothing Twinkm Eye
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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Cloth Cost High Interest Oppose Party Republican Wage Worker
Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Freedom Given never Won
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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Capitalist Develop Emancipation Industrial Manufacture North Rise Slave Spokesman View
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Beneficiary Destroy Every Truth Expect System
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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Done Inner Propitious Right Satisfaction Through
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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Certain Communist Country Express March People Person Trouble True View White
Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Depend Loyalty Meaningless One
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Army Jail Oppose People Prepare
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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Deprive Fight Give Resent Resist Right Someone Try

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