A. Philip Randolph Quotes

A. Philip Randolph — American Activist born on January 15, 1889, died on May 16, 1979

Asa Philip Randolph was a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties... (wikipedia)

Freedom is never given; it is won.

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

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 powerful possess.

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 higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

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 billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

A. Philip Randolph Quotes

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