Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPHI have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.
More A. Philip Randolph Quotes
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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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Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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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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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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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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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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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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Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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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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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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