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.
Source: Publisher's Forward, in Crisis, Mar 1986.
-- Benjamin L Hooks, (Jan 31 1925-2010), US jurist, minister, government official; He was executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1977 to 1993.