Benjamin Hooks Quotes

• If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you are just taking a walk.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Leadership, Thinking, Empowering Others

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• Black men who have succeeded have an obligation to serve as role models for young men entrapped by a vicious cycle of poverty, despair, and hopelessness.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Men, Role Models, Black

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• The most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Civilization, Brain, Made

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• A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Country, Government, Done

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• We're no longer arguing about riding in the back of the bus, but being the bus driver or the president of the bus company. We're not pushing for the right to buy the hot dog, but selling the hot dog and the right to own the hot dog franchise.

  Benjamin Hooks

  Dog, Justice, Diversity

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