A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph
Asa Philip Randolphwas a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the American labor movement, and socialist political parties...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth15 January 1889
CountryUnited States of America
heart school responsibility
Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom.
relationship religious freedom
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.
names justice democracy
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.
class race justice
Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within. Freedom is never granted; it is won. Justice is never given; it is exacted.
enemy looks wages
Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.
uplifting labour-movement essence
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.
pressure revolution action
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
eye thinking dollars
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.
flower organization humanist
Power is the flower of organization.