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.
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 voi… - 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 voi…
- Whitney M. Young
Stretch your mind and fly. - Whitney M. Young
Stretch your mind and fly.
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democr… - Whitney M. Young
The unhealthy gap between what we preach in America and what we often practice creates a moral dry rot that eats at the very foundation of our democr…
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention. - Whitney M. Young
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
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
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
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… - Whitney M. Young
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…
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 Power”,… - Whitney M. Young
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 Power”,…
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed. - Whitney M. Young
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
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
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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