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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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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.’
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Capital Country Fight Loyal March Nation People Slogan Suggest Ten Thousand
Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Freedom Given never Won
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Advance Country Defense Denied National Play Population Right Seek Unity
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Abroad Country Democracy Gun Home Mood People Shoulder
Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Appeal Justice Party Patriotism Principal Weight
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 RANDOLPH

Capitalist Develop Emancipation Industrial Manufacture North Rise Slave Spokesman View
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Aid Black Both Conscription Counce Open Personally Pledge Quarantine System White
Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Appropriate Billion Count Dollar Little Nothing Twinkm Eye
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Civil Community Democratic Economic High Humble Person Weak
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Day Die Great History Hopelessness Labor Live Movement Remember Single Stick Trial Understand
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 RANDOLPH

Cloth Cost High Interest Oppose Party Republican Wage Worker
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Bond Economic Financial Float Franchise New Organize Port Resource Tax
I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Done Inner Propitious Right Satisfaction Through
Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Depend Loyalty Meaningless One
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Certain Communist Country Express March People Person Trouble True View White
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Equal Must Free Order People

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