Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHWe 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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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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