Whitney Young, the civil rights leader, is mentioned in the Gill Scott Heron poem, The Revolution Will Be Televised (see video texts).

Here are some of his quotes. It seems that the first one could be the motto of YouthLAB. What do you think?

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Another quote that could be YouthLAB’s slogan comes from Milan Kundera.

“The struggle of humanity against power, is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”