A. Philip Randolph
A. Philip Randolph

The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

Adam Braun
Adam Braun

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

Adam Grant
Adam Grant

To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

Adam Lashinsky
Adam Lashinsky

AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers.

Adam Savage
Adam Savage

Mostly I make lists for projects. This can be daunting. Breaking something big into its constituent parts will help you organize your thoughts, but it can also force you to confront the depth of your ignorance and the hugeness of the task. That's OK. The project may be the lion, but the list is your whip.

Adam Silver
Adam Silver

I ran track. I ran cross country. But I did not play organized basketball in high school, at least on our team. But I played a lot of sports.

Al Lewis
Al Lewis

I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Al Smith
Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Alan Guth
Alan Guth

It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting here, talking, doing things intentionally.