Whitney M. Young Quotes

If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?

When people meet me, I hope that they say this: 'This is a guy who, number one, loves the Lord, but he also loves people, and he wants to make a difference in people's life. And he wants to help everyone he comes in contact with, and he is genuine, he is real, and he cares about people.'

For the cause that lacks assistance, the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, and the good that I can do.

I don't think of myself as doing good works. It's not, 'Oh, I must give these poor people a voice.'

Small acts of decency ripple in ways we could never imagine.

You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.

I feel that my purpose is to shed light on some of the darker sides of our world, and to lend a hand and a voice to people struggling.

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless.

I think you can get happiness through making a real difference in other people's lives by setting out to make other people's lives better and setting out to right the wrongs in the world.

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

If you're a voice for a community, then you're a voice for something more than yourself. I want to have an impact, because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

He who speaks, he who writes is above all one who speaks on behalf of all those who have no voice.

I want to make the world into something better so that he can be okay.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.