List of A. Philip Randolph Quotes

Winning Democracy For The Negro Is Winning The War For Democracy

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.

Salvation For A Race, Nation Or Class Must Come From Within.

Power Is The Flower Of Organization.

We Want The Full Works Of Citizenship With No Reservations. We Will Accept Nothing Less . . . This Condition Of Freedom, Equality, And Democracy Is Not The Gift Of Gods. It Is The Task Of Men, Yes, Men, Brave Men, Honest Men, Determined Men.

Make Wars Unprofitable And You Make Them Impossible.

In Every Truth, The Beneficiaries Of A System Cannot Be Expected To Destroy It.

Nothing Counts But Pressure, Pressure, More Pressure, And Still More Pressure Through Broad Organized Aggressive Mass Action.

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 Social Peace At The Expense Of Social And Racial Justice. They Are More Concerned With Easing Racial Tension Than Enforcing Racial Democracy.

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 Poor.

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.

It's Easy To Get People's Attention, What Counts Is Getting Their Interest.