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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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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
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
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Beneficiary Destroy Every Truth Expect System
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Exact Given Justice
Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Freedom Given never Won
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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Continous Exact Fact Final Freedom Given Justice never Struggle
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
Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Equality Freedom Men Unless Useless Win
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
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Class Come Nation Race Salvation
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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Affair Billion Demonstration Develop Dramatic Million Think Use World
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
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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Civil Community Democratic Economic High Humble Person Weak
I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Army Jail Oppose People Prepare
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
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

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