Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Asa Philip Randolph
American Civil Rights Leader and Founder of both the March on Washington Movement and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
"Violence seldom accomplishes permanent and desired results. Herein lies the futility of war."
"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."
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
"In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it."
"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."
"Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within."
"We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts."