"I am not anxious to be the loudest……" — Whitney M. Young
"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 was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless."
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16 Quotes by Whitney M. Young
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The danger is that people may mistake what is basically a change in vocabulary for a change in behavior, practices,…
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new…
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not…
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We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress…
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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…
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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…
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You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences…
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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,…
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Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new…
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Stretch your mind and fly.
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
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