Whitney M. Young Quotes

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• The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices, and attitudes. While practically all…
• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job,…
• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
• We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of…
• Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
• No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
• Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where…
• You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There…
• I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a crucial moment, I…
• Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate…
• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job.…
• Stretch your mind and fly.
• The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
• You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t…
• Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
• Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.

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