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Top 30 Quotes by A. Philip Randolph
“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
“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.”
“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro.”
“The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.”
“Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.”
“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation.”
“In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.”
“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”
“We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less.”
“Power is the flower of organization.”
“Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.”
“We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs.”
“Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.”
“I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.”
“Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.”
“I don’t ever remember a single day of hopelessness.”
“Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has.”
“Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free.”
“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.”
“Freedom is never granted; it is won.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.”
“I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system.”
“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.”
“The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers.”
“The history of the labor movement in America proves that the employing class recognize no race lines.”
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