Tag Archives: 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 fight against it. 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 people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win. A. Philip Randolph

Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to. 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

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

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States. 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

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

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