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
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.
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.