A. Philip Randolph Quotes

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If the Church, white or black, is to express the true philosophy of Jesus Christ, Himself a worker, it will not lend itself to the creed of oppressive capitalism which would deny to the servant his just hire.

A. Philip Randolph
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take and keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything. And if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.

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

A. Philip Randolph
Fellow Americans, let the nation and world know the meaning of our numbers. We are not a pressure group. We are not an organization or a group of organizations. We are not a mob. We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom.

A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is never granted, it is won. Justice is never given, it is exacted.

A. Philip Randolph
Our ancestors were transformed from human personalities into private property. It falls to us to demand new forms of social planning, to create full employment, and to put automation at the service of human needs, not at the service of profits, for we are the worst victims of unemployment.

A. Philip Randolph
A community is democratic only when the humblest and the weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph