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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.
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Whitney M. Young Jr.
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The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
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Whitney M. Young Jr.
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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Whitney M. Young Jr. (Beyond Racism, Building an Open Society)
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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The hardest work in the world is being out of work