A. Philip Randolph quote: "The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States."

Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all rac...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it ma...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Ne...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation o...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Justice is never given; it is exacted.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot ...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quaranti...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movemen...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resen...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

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

Freedom is never granted; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a fin...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Freedom is never given; it is won.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think i...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, eco...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the s...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

We seek the right to play our part in advancing the cause of national defense and national unity. Bu...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

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

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organiz...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organize...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think i...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

Today, Rustin is overshadowed by memories of Dr. King and his [I Have a Dream] speech.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I have waited twenty-two years for this . . . I've waited all my life for this opportunity.
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

Frankly, I don't like publicity.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

Westerns are a type of picture which everybody can see and enjoy. Westerns always make money. And th...
RANDOLPH SCOTT

My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of...
RANDOLPH SCOTT

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.
RANDOLPH SCOTT

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligulas horse was mad...
JOHN RANDOLPH

That most delicious of all privilegesspending other peoples money.
JOHN RANDOLPH

In regard to this principle, that all men are born free and equal, if there is an animal on earth to...
JOHN RANDOLPH

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.
JOHN RANDOLPH

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than love. Kindness is good will. Kind...
RANDOLPH RAY

No statesmen ever will find it worth his pains, to tax our labor and excise our brain.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

Stolen sweets are always sweeter: Stolen kisses much completer; Stolen looks are nice in chape...
THOMAS RANDOLPH

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

Life is not so important as the duties of life.
JOHN RANDOLPH

I personally called the police about four times; they knew that there was a problem. This child was ...
ANTHONY RANDOLPH

They [the children] should be together. They've been through enough sorrow in their lives. She's bee...
ANTHONY RANDOLPH

He had a smile that would warm your heart. He had a twinkle in his eyes.
ANTHONY RANDOLPH

Peaches needed help and help wasn't given to her. Sometimes we can't look to ACS to always be there....
ANTHONY RANDOLPH

If you knew there was neglect in that home and you didn't call ACS, you're just as guilty as he [Cal...
ANTHONY RANDOLPH

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

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money
JOHN RANDOLPH

We were the underdog today, and prevailed. That's the best thing about it.
CASEY RANDOLPH

This is our biggest win, and to do it with a pin doesn't get any better. But just getting there (Bat...
CASEY RANDOLPH

It's just great to be able to help a few people. I'm having fun with friends and I get to worship Go...
CASEY RANDOLPH

We were trailing 30-28 heading into the final match. We bumped up our 125-pound wrestler, Steve Cox,...
CASEY RANDOLPH

This is a real exciting time. I love that no one is giving us a chance.
CASEY RANDOLPH

Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock and after it has been going three hours, you...
DAVID RANDOLPH

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, ...
JOHN RANDOLPH

We sit and talk, and kiss away the hours as chastely as the morning dews kiss flowers: I touch her, ...
THOMAS RANDOLPH

Give the pitcher credit, he threw the ball well. We didn't muster much of an offense.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

That reminded me of the Kenny Lofton of yesteryear. Those were huge plays. We could have gotten some...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

There's no comparison to me. There's nothing like Yankees-Red Sox to me.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I think he'll probably throw off the mound soon. Obviously, he's going to have to get off the mound ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Sometimes you come in with a guy who is unorthodox in a delivery and he'll get you an out. Bring som...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting
WILLIAM RANDOLPH

It seemed to me I was a little more anxious to get to the emergency room than they were.
BRUCE RANDOLPH

He had a nice game. I noticed he had more pep in his step.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

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

Mean spirits under disappointment, like small beer in a thunderstorm, always turn sour
JOHN RANDOLPH

Life is not so important as the duties of life
JOHN RANDOLPH

Our pitching. I told them that we're not going to do anything unless we pitched well. Our starters h...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I think David and Sam just fed these trees and shrubs and tended them very well. They probably get t...
RANDY RANDOLPH

He's making good passes at the ball and not favoring the leg, so let's get it going. He's probably a...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We had to bounce back. We wanted to get a win and we did. We buckled down in the fourth quarter.
ZACH RANDOLPH

We've got three or four guys on the depth chart who might step up and knock my socks off.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

They might be one-batter guys or two. Got to see what they look like.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I told him that I’d prefer him not to do that, ... He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and,...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I told him that I'd prefer him not to do that. He felt he could maybe get a bunt base hit and, like ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're still very strong, but the Bay Area is now in a pack with a half a dozen very strong regional ...
SEAN RANDOLPH

We can use a little jolt or whatever,
WILLIE RANDOLPH

When we saw him in Spring Training, we knew he had some thunder in his hands. But he's been really g...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I got a best time in my freestyle for my relay. This is the first year I've actually done well in fr...
AUSTEN RANDOLPH

From what it looked like today, we did really well.
AUSTEN RANDOLPH

I work on starts and finishing fast in and out of my turns. It makes or breaks the race.
AUSTEN RANDOLPH

Spoilers are losers, ... I don't want to ever have my team feel good about being spoilers.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

The biggest challenge is that Sam and Dave are perfectionists. Really trying to satisfy their expect...
RANDY RANDOLPH

We're assuming and hoping that he's going to be the guy.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was ma...
JOHN RANDOLPH

I don't like throwing superlatives around, but you've got to like what you see.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He just couldn't stop the avalanche.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

You obviously want to make sure you err on the side of caution when someone gets hit in the head or ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked ...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness...
RANDOLPH BOURNE

We don't care about that. This is a new team, a new year. We just go out and play.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We went in with the notion of not having him pitch more than five or seven and 80-something pitches ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I'm going to stop saying I've seen it all. Because every time I do, something else crazy happens.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's just a matter of going through the pains of learning how to play winning baseball, ... That's r...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're just going through the process of learning how to play winning baseball. The bottom line is th...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I'm still going to stay even. I'm going to still stay positive. This is tough. I hurt just like ever...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

That's why you don't panic. That's why you don't overreact. We know very well that things can change...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year. We just seem to make a mistak...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

[Carlos] Delgado's the guy you're most concerned about. It's nice to have a few lefties in case you ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're gluttons for punishment, I guess. This is probably as tough as it gets this year.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're going to miss (Mark) Mulder, ... That's good, I guess, huh?
WILLIE RANDOLPH

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club. If I have a situation where I have someone ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's important for me to see how guys react in certain spots, ... Not just putting them there, but h...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Everyone pitches with a certain amount of discomfort. We have medical reports every day and Loop nev...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

That doesn't mean a whole lot to me.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's my first year and I've learned a lot,
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's nice to see a young player use the whole field, use his power to all fields. That's something t...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's important to finish up strong, win as many games as we can,
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Every time he got it up, they hit.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I'm not thinking about other teams or what people think about what we're doing, ... I'm just trying ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

[Beltran] has it in him; he just has to bring it out, ... I think if he would have had a better year...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He's a guy you feel you can trust in big spots because he's been there and he has the funk,
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I feel like we deserved this victory. We haven't had a comeback like this in a while. All year long,...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I've talked to my guys about it. All teams, when they go through a growing process, these things hap...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It just means he's had a real fine year. I'm sure this is the first of many for him.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I pretty much have an idea what he can do. I think it's important the guys who have been here all ye...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It feels great. I'm real proud of those guys.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I already told Loop we're going to be flexible in that role, ... We'll see how it goes. It's not som...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

There's nothing wrong with his arm. It's probably a combination of a lot of things, and the fact tha...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I hold my breath a lot. When I've talked to him about taking a day, he looks at me like I'm nuts.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It doesn't make sense to give a young kid like Hernandez an old man's spot like that this early.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

But he's played a lot of baseball, you can tell, ... He's got a more natural flow. The kids in his c...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We make it hard for ourselves sometimes, ... and we go to the heartbreak hotel a little too much.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

[Wright's manager is more outspoken against the role, stopping just short of reaching for a barf bag...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

You kind of flinch a little bit, when you see can see that both of them have a bead on it. When the ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Obviously bringing in Wagner, a legitimate closer who makes you feel real good at the end of the gam...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

If the side effects of an antidepressant drug are hallucinations telling you to kill yourself, there...
RANDOLPH GORDON

You go through the first loop and you make a few adjustments so it's accommodating in some ways to p...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He's fine. Just like any other thing, he's got some personal things to deal with or whatever. He has...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We wanted to sweep once we took the first two. I get greedy. But it's a long season. We've played fo...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

A state can no more give up part of her sovereignty than a lady can give up part of her virtue
JOHN RANDOLPH

Victor has a lot of movement on his pitches, so sometimes he's going to be out of the zone. But this...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Pedro told me that his arm feels great. He has this little, minor thing with his toe, but I don't th...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I think that's what happened . . . he didn't have the feel for the ball. Pedro likes to pitch inside...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's a different approach nowadays. That's why it's nice to see players like David Wright come into ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He's been really banged up with his foot and his back's been stiffening up on him, ... With over 220...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Victor, ... can be somewhat erratic.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're not able to put the nail in the coffin so to speak, just adding on. All crucial runs, all stuf...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I don't ever react to stuff like that.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Every situation is totally different for me. Every team that faces Barry Bonds has the same dilemma....
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We were just looking for a way to get back in the game emotionally, get energized. That's all we foc...
RANDOLPH MORRIS

His stuff is good. Hey, we're 9-2 and he's a part of our team and as long as we're doing well I don'...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I'm legit now, ... I won't be breaking Billy Martin's or Earl Weaver's records, but that's been buil...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're just playing much better basketball, plain and simple. Guys are sticking together, understandi...
ZACH RANDOLPH

I'm legit now. I won't be breaking Billy Martin's or Earl Weaver's records, but that's been building...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It's nice to finish strong and end the season on a good note. It's nicer to be above .500 than below...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He has the tendency to overthrow the ball. I'm sure tonight it was no different.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Some guys take a little longer to exhale. It's a natural thing, a human thing. I think that most of ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He didn't have his best command tonight. He was a little bit erratic. You know, he always finds a wa...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He was erratically effective. That was the most erratic we've seen him in a while. But he made the p...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He was effectively erratic I guess. That was probably the most erratic we've seen him in a while. Bu...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I think he looks totally different than he was last year. He's looser and freer, and the ball is com...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I wouldn't call him a swingman ... he could be in the roation by the end of the year. Nothing's etch...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for on...
JOHN RANDOLPH

Now the facilities aren't there. Just worn-out lots. You need 18 guys and 18 gloves, some bats and b...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

You have to pace yourself. You have to adjust mentally. When you get tired, you're not selective eno...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

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

I just wanted to be the one taking the shots. They were tough shots. I got some lift on them and hit...
ZACH RANDOLPH

Pedro just made some bad pitches. He elevated some, and the ball was carrying. It was very unusual f...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

The thing about Pedro is that even if he's a little bit gassed, he can make pitches for you, ... I h...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

It throws too many things out of whack if you do that. It's going to shorten Pedro [Martinez], and m...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

make Pedro look like a choirboy.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We'll let Pedro dictate when he's ready.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

There's no pressure. I've always been a winner and I expect to win now. I don't consider that pressu...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

The ironist is ironical not because he does not care, but because he cares too much.
RANDOLPH BOURNE

There are personal things you have to deal with and he had permission to do that. I don't have the d...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

That's why we don't panic. That's why we still feel good about this team.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Hamstrings are very mysterious, very unpredictable injuries.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

When you're playing the Braves, you can feel good going in but not too good going out.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

He's got quick hands. He attacks the ball aggressively. And you have to like his speed. He's just a ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We are stronger and more balanced with Aaron there. Aaron makes the whole nucleus that much better.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

You couldn't see a thing in that water.
BRUCE RANDOLPH

These guys never give up and that's what it's all about. We aren't happy with a 14th-place finish-- ...
DOUG RANDOLPH

This is a strong race team and I know we can be competitive every week. We just need to hang in ther...
DOUG RANDOLPH

The guys are excited about the way things worked out in Daytona. Obviously we were disappointed with...
DOUG RANDOLPH

So far, [Zambrano] is doing what we wanted him to do. He's looking a lot more fluid this spring.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Hopefully, he'll return to the player I saw in Kansas City, who hit the ball the other way more. He ...
WILLIE RANDOLPH

But take all that with a grain of salt because you assume that's not the natural thing.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

Jose got lazy with his footwork.
WILLIE RANDOLPH

We're two teams on the same court. Anything can happen.
CRISTAL RANDOLPH

My job is to knock down the open shot.
CRISTAL RANDOLPH

This is a different level, but the feeling is the same.
CRISTAL RANDOLPH

We feel that's a significant problem.
DAN RANDOLPH

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ...
DAN RANDOLPH

I'm very sad to say that as it currently stands that this bill is a step back for the majority of th...
DAN RANDOLPH

We were in strong support of the intent of this bill, but, I'm sad to say, it currently is a step ba...
DAN RANDOLPH

No, make it lighter, people; this is Baroque music.
DAVID RANDOLPH

It (the arrest) won't bring her back, and we're not the kind of family that is all for retribution a...
DAVID RANDOLPH

It is a very high price. It is a little out of the ordinary, frankly.
LARRY RANDOLPH

From our knowledge, this is a record this year.
LARRY RANDOLPH

The common soldier showed he was quite up to the job.
LARRY RANDOLPH

It is an ultra neo-conservative county, and when you wear and carry that banner you try to flex your...
LONNIE RANDOLPH

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

A. Philip Randolph

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