Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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.’
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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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