Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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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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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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.
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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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The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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