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Whitney M. Young has 16 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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.…
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up…
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Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
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No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of…
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Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all…
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You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot…
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I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. But I would like to think that at a…
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Black Power simply means: Look at me, I'm here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand…
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for…
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Stretch your mind and fly.
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards.…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled…
— Richard Allen
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