Freedom is never given; it is won.

- A. Philip Randolph

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrod…

- A. Philip Randolph

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

- A. Philip Randolph

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

- A. Philip Randolph

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

- A. Philip Randolph

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would ha…

- A. Philip Randolph

At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, y…

- A. Philip Randolph

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 N…

- A. Philip Randolph

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

- A. Philip Randolph