Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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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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.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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 given; it is won.
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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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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 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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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