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The Messenger was co-edited by A. Phillip Randolph
and Chandler Owen and called itself a magazine of scientific
radicalism. Focusing on the labor movement and socialism,
it has been considered by many to be the best radical magazine
that was published by and for black Americans during the Harlem
Renaissance. Its aim was to appeal to reason, to lift
our pens above the cringing demagogy of the times, and above
the cheap peanut politics of the old reactionary Negro leaders
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight
with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on
what one is loyal to.
(Journal of Negro History,
vol. 13, 1928, p. 17)
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