A. Philip Randolph Quotes

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• 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…
• Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
• 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…
• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
• Power is the flower of organization.
• 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.
• 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…
• Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy
• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
• 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…
• 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…
• Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Freedom is never given; it is won.

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