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Justice is never given; it is exacted. 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 the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South. A. Philip Randolph

Freedom is never granted; it is won. 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

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

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

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest. 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 citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.' 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