Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

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.

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.

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

Power is the flower of organization.

Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.

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