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 RANDOLPHJustice is never given; it is exacted.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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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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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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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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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 have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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