"At the banquet table of nature, there are……" — A. Philip Randolph
"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."
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A. Philip Randolph
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16 Quotes by A. Philip Randolph
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Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools…
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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Power is the flower of organization.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is…
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The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised,…
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Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
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Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there…
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Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation…
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights…
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