A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

Justice is never given; it is exacted.

— A. Philip Randolph

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black…

— A. Philip Randolph

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American…

— A. Philip Randolph

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be…

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom,…

— A. Philip Randolph

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will…

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to…

— A. Philip Randolph

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

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands…

— A. Philip Randolph

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is…

— A. Philip Randolph

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…

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

Power is the flower of organization.

— A. Philip Randolph

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

— A. Philip Randolph

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win…

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

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

— A. Philip Randolph

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected,…

— A. Philip Randolph

Freedom is never granted; it is won.

— A. Philip Randolph