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" Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home. "
A. Philip Randolph
Mood
While
Democracy
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" Freedom is never given; it is won. "
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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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" 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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" Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom. "
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" If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest. "
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White
True
" 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... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts. "
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Used
Nothing
Eye
" Freedom is never granted; it is won. "
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Never
Won
Freedom
" 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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Fight
Work
American
" Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. "
A. Philip Randolph
Loyalty
Justice
Us
" 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Struggle
Relationship
Justice
" The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Award
Control
Football
" 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Day
Black
Great
" 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Community
Enjoy
Powerful
" Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes. "
A. Philip Randolph
Minds
Negroes
Would
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A. Philip Randolph
Never
Justice
Given
" I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system. "
A. Philip Randolph
Youth
Black
Black And White
" 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Republican
Clothing
Food
" In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. "
A. Philip Randolph
Truth
Expected
Destroy
" I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious. "
A. Philip Randolph
Done
Right
Thought
" Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. "
A. Philip Randolph
Class
Salvation
Nation
" 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. "
A. Philip Randolph
Class
Triumph
Over
" 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 Randolph
Against
Rights
You