Whitney M. Young Quotes:
Life: July 31, 1921 - March 11, 1971
Birthday: July 31
Death: March 11
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.
source: Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”
topic: Beautiful, Mother, Jobs, New Skills, Learning New, Learning New Skills, Slums, Black Is Beautiful
