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A. Phillip Randolph

b: Crescent City, Florida, USA, Apr 15, 1889

d: New York City, New York, USA, May 16, 1979

Asa Philip Randolph was a prominent twentieth-century African-American civil rights leader and the founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a landmark for labor and particularly for African-American labor organizing.

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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.

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

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.

The labor movement has been the home of the working man, and traditionally, it has been the only haven for the dispossessed; and therefore, I have tried to build an alliance between the Negro and the american labor movement.

The reconstruction program for the Negro must involve the introduction of the new social order – a democratic order in which human rights are recognized above property rights.

There can be no solidarity if one is considered a Black Worker and another a White Worker. We should be considered just a worker.

We are not interested in Negroes getting more work, Negroes have too much work already. What we want Negroes to get is less work and more wages.