Whitney Young
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"Whitney Moore Young, Jr." was an United States/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.

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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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