The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.
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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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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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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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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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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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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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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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.
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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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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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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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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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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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Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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