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.

Whitney Young
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When Martin Luther King Jr. said “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,” he was talking about how important it is to speak out for those who are voiceless and how important it is to be an effective voice for their hopes.

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