Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

If your ego starts out, "I am important, I am big, I am special," you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

Popular Topics
Kids, Involve, I Miss You, Girl, Movie Love, Wisdom, Inspired, Light, Path Of Love, Lives, Feeling, Technical, Positive, Difference, Journey, Reality, Smile, Songs, Heart, Scholar, New York, Stage, Relationships, Oceans, Thank You, Living My Life, Peace And Love, Period, Night, Like, Achievement, Kindly, Teacher, Kind, Knowledge, Important, Beach, Motor, Inspiration, Football, Impossible, World, Philosophy, Funny, Ideas, Curiosity, Song, House, Ocean, Passive
Whitney M. Young

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.

Act, Attitude, Attitudes, Inoffensively, Mistake, Thinking
Same Author Quotes

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

African American, Inspirational, Opportunity, Prepared

Every man is our brother, and every man’s burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reins, all are unequal.

Brother, Hate, Mans, Men, Poverty, Unequal

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.

Children, Decisions, Life, Mean, Participate, Pride

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.

Crucial, Hopeless, Like, Moment, Thinking, Voice

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.

Able, Carry, Plot, Protest, Researchers, Roles
Similar Quotes