A. Philip Randolph's Quotes

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.

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

Freedom is never given; it is won.

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

Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.

I am an aristocrat. I love liberty; I hate equality.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.