I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHFreedom is never granted; it is won.
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHLincoln 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 RANDOLPHNegroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHNegroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHA 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 RANDOLPHJustice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI 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 RANDOLPHDebs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHWe 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…
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHThe 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 RANDOLPHBillions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH