Activist

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

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

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

Lincoln was the spokesman of the rising capitalist class of the North, who viewed the emancipation of Negro slaves as indispensable to the development and triumph of the manufacturers and bankers of the industrial North, East and West over the slave-holder of the South.

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

If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.

If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.

Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is obvious that the Republican and Democratic Parties are opposed to their interests.