Whitney M. Young famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Inspirational #Opportunity #Opportunist
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
-- Whitney M. Young

#World #Hardest
Every man is our brother, and every manâ€™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. Young

#Brother #Hate #Men
You donâ€™t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didnâ€™t shout â€œIrish Powerâ€, â€œJew Powerâ€, [or] â€œItalian Powerâ€. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.
-- Whitney M. Young

#New York #Italian #Boston
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. Young

#Thinking #Voice #Hopeless
Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Distance #People #Problem
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. Young

#Children #Mean #Pride
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. Young

#Beautiful #Mother #Jobs
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. . . .
-- Whitney M. Young

#Beautiful #Jobs #Children
Stretch your mind and fly.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Mind #Mindfulness
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.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Roles #Able #Plot
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.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Love #Lying #Hate
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. Young

#Attitude #Mistake #Thinking
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Strong #Giving #Support
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
-- Whitney M. Young

#Use #Invention #Ability
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. Young

#Race #Color #Black History

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