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We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less . . . This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
 A. Philip Randolph

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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.
 A. Philip Randolph
Freedom is never given; it is won.
 A. Philip Randolph
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.
 A. Philip Randolph
Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
 A. Philip Randolph