Whitney M. Young
Whitney M. Young
Whitney Moore Young Jr.was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively worked for equitable access to socioeconomic opportunity for the historically disenfranchised...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth31 July 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Whitney M. Young quotes about
inspirational opportunity opportunist
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
plot roles able
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.
world unemployment unemployed
The hardest work in the world is being out of work.
race color black-history
No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.
love lying hate
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.
practice democratic-ideals america
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 democratic ideals and values.
use invention ability
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.