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Quote by A. Philip Randolph
But this civil rights revolution is not confined to the Negro, nor is it confined to civil rights for our white allies know that they cannot be free while we are not.
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The speaker says the civil rights struggle is not only about Black people or legal rights. It also concerns the freedom of white people who support equality. Their freedom is incomplete while Black people remain unfree, because justice cannot be separated into different standards for different groups.
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