Whitney M. Young quotes
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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.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.
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“The hardest work in the world is being out of work.”
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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 are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.
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“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 shout “Irish Powerâ€, “Jew Powerâ€, [or] “Italian Powerâ€. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.”
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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 crucial moment, I was an effective voice of the voiceless, an effective hope of the hopeless.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : "Independent Lens (The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. February 18, 2013.
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“Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.”
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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 that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens", TV Series, www.imdb.com. (1999– ).
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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 a new job, or a slum mother battling to give her kids a chance for a better life. But white is beautiful, too, when it helps change society to make our system work for black people also. White is ugly when it oppresses blacks-and so is black ugly when black people exploit other blacks. No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”
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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 a new job. . . .”
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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 a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.”
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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 with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.”
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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 Americans have learned to talk inoffensively, not enough have learned to think differently, nor act positively.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”
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“Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : "Character: Whitney Young". "Independent Lens ", TV Series (1999– ). "The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights", www.imdb.com. 2013.
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“Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.”
-- Whitney M. YoungSource : Whitney M. Young (1964). “To be equal”
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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 his skin.”
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