Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and the... -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 freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.

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A. Philip Randolph was a prominent civil rights leader and labor activist. As the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and a key figure in the civil rights movement, Randolph fought for racial equality, workers' rights, and economic justice. His tireless advocacy and commitment to social change had a profound impact on American society.

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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....
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home....
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 unde...
Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican an...
Freedom is never granted; it is won....
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 to high...
Freedom is never given; it is won....
The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the powe...
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...

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....