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.
Source: Keynote address to the policy conference, March on Washington Movement, Detroit, 26 Sep 1942.
-- A Philip Randolph, (Apr 15 1889-1979), US trade unionist, civil-rights leader; He cofounded The Messenger, 1917; established the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1925; organized a labor protest March on Washington, 1941.