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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.
Source: In Famous Black Quotations, ed. Janet Cheatham Bell, 1995.
-- 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.