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

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- 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”,…

- Whitney M. Young

Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.

- 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. . . .

- Whitney M. Young