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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for. -- Andrew Young
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. -- Andrew Young
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For most of the world, civil and political rights ... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. -- Andrew Young
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest ... That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are. -- Andrew Young
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If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters? -- Andrew Young
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There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination. -- Andrew Young
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. -- Andrew Young
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living. -- Andrew Young
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack. -- Andrew Young
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement. -- Andrew Young
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. -- Andrew Young
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To find people who don't want anything is rare. -- Andrew Young
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream. -- Andrew Young
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams. -- Andrew Young
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport. -- Andrew Young
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read. -- Andrew Young
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You have to start living for something that's worth dying for. -- Andrew Young
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Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy. -- Andrew Young
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. -- Andrew Young
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty. -- Andrew Young
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty. -- Andrew Young
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There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. -- Andrew Young
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Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody. -- Andrew Young
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do. -- Andrew Young
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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required. -- Andrew Young
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. -- Andrew Young
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly. -- Andrew Young
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise. -- Andrew Young
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There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S. -- Andrew Young
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He knew when he had them, knew when they were getting bored, and knew when to wrap things up. -- Andrew Young
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more. -- Andrew Young
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I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner. -- Andrew Young
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. -- Andrew Young
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime. -- Andrew Young
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor. -- Andrew Young
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The man with courage is a majority. -- Andrew Young
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Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support. -- Andrew Young
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. -- Andrew Young
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents. -- Andrew Young
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back. -- Andrew Young
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We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression. -- Andrew Young
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My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around. -- Andrew Young
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless. -- Andrew Young
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people. -- Andrew Young
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations. -- Andrew Young
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When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different. -- Andrew Young
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so. -- Andrew Young
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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden. -- Andrew Young
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. -- Andrew Young
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Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got. -- Andrew Young
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. -- Andrew Young
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Beauty and love are all my dream;
They change not with the changing day;
Love stays forever like a stream
That flows but never flows away; -- Andrew Young
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything. -- Andrew Young
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932) -- Andrew Young
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better. -- Andrew Young
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride. -- Andrew Young
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. -- Andrew Young
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry. -- Andrew Young
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect. -- Andrew Young
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form. -- Andrew Young
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing. -- Andrew Young
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival. -- Andrew Young
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts. -- Andrew Young
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart. -- Andrew Young
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. -- Andrew Young
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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized. -- Andrew Young
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed. -- Andrew Young
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired. -- Andrew Young
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth. -- Andrew Young
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk. -- Andrew Young
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Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people. -- Andrew Young
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Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. -- Andrew Young
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Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. -- Andrew Young
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district. -- Andrew Young
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have. -- Andrew Young
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly. -- Andrew Young
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Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally. -- Andrew Young
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. -- Andrew Young
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity. -- Andrew Young
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One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. -- Andrew Young
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. -- Andrew Young
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts. -- Andrew Young
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Everybody is determined by his own experience. -- Andrew Young
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I tried. But not everybody thought so. -- Andrew Young
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. -- Andrew Young
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street. -- Andrew Young
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together. -- Andrew Young
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. -- Andrew Young