A. Philip Randolph Quotes

• Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Heart, School, Responsibility

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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.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Powerful, Struggle, Rights In America

  "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Race, Class, Justice

  "A. Philip Randolph, a Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. vii, 1973.

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• At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Struggle, Organization, Tables

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• It's easy to get people's attention, what counts is getting their interest.

  A. Philip Randolph

  People, Attention, Easy

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• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.

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• 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 coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Enemy, Looks, Wages

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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.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Relationship, Religious, Freedom

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• 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.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Uplifting, Labour Movement, Essence

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• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Pressure, Revolution, Action

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• Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Names, Justice, Democracy

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• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Truth, Beneficiaries, Expected

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• Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Money, War, Impossible

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• We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Men, Brave, Democracy

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• Power is the flower of organization.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Flower, Organization, Humanist

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• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Race, Class, Salvation

  "A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait". Book by Jervis Anderson, epigraph, p. VII, 1972.

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• Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

  A. Philip Randolph

  War, Winning, Democracy

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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... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  A. Philip Randolph

  Eye, Thinking, World

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