I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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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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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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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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