18 A. Philip Randolph Quotes for You to Enjoy

A. Philip Randolph

American Activist

Born: Apr 15, 1889

Died: May 16, 1979

Class Freedom Great Justice Rights Win

Related authors: Angela Davis Cesar Chavez Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Sojourner Truth Susan B. Anthony

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

Rights Community Enjoy Possess Weakest Civil Only Economic Highest Powerful Most Democratic Most Powerful Person Biggest Social Humblest

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

Financial Political Power Master Control Resources Franchise States Financial Resources Economic Football Between Adventurers Over Contest His Northern Short Tax Gain Former Newly Organized Float Award Slave Basis Bonds

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

Food Live Negroes High Cost Almost Almost All Since Parties Democratic Obvious Shelter Wages Opposed Clothing Republican Workers Interests Suffer

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. A. Philip Randolph

Rights Cause National Unity Defense Our Citizens Seek Part Advancing True Denied National Defense American National Unity American Citizens Where Certainly Population Play Right Basic Basic Rights

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

Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. A. Philip Randolph

Class Nation Must Come Within Salvation Race

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

Myself Youth Black Black And White White Aid Jim Jim Crow Pledge System Crow Both Counsel Openly Any Personally Conscription

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

Freedom is never granted; it is won. A. Philip Randolph

Freedom Never Won Granted

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious. A. Philip Randolph

Time Thought Having Done Which Satisfaction Right Inner

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail. A. Philip Randolph

Army Oppose Jim Jim Crow Crow Am Till Jail Rot Prepared

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. A. Philip Randolph

World Big Nothing Think Dramatic Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Eye Must Thousands Develop Counts Terms Because Demonstrations Affairs Dollars Huge Little Used Billions Billions Of Dollars Twinkling Millions

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes. A. Philip Randolph

Free Minds Negroes Would Freed Merely Lincoln Bodies

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home. A. Philip Randolph

Home Democracy Negroes Mood Guns Abroad Denied While Shoulder Here

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