Whitney M. Young Quotes
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
Young, Whitney M. To Be Equal. McGraw-Hill, 1964.
The general had reviewed the 9 objectives that the President had given him for the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq and had told Mr. Bush that he could not accomplish 4—the most important ones.
This quotation is often used to illustrate the "Muslim propensity to violence". However, the context of the quotation was a historical circumstance whereby Muhammad's followers were endangered by others and the fighting was of a defensive nature. However, Islam is also a religion requiring believers to spread the religion. So, if there were people or countries or tribes that resisted conversion, the religion was interpreted by many Muslims as being under attack. Therefore violence was justified. In modern times, some religious leaders saw modernism and The West as a danger to Islam and it's tradition, therefore this and other passages of the Koran are often used to justify the terrorism that became so prevalent.
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, 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.
