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.
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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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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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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