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Andrew Young  Quotes
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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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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I think there’s just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.

—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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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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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...

—Andrew Young

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Without all of this, … Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.

—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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

—Andrew Young

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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them...

—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...

—Andrew Young

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This time he wasn’t so lucky. He was caught on camera… and I think he’s going to be doing some jail time.

—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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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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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future...

—Andrew Young

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There’s another side of the story that ought to be told.

—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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No one who’s white thinks he’s innocent. No one who’s black thinks he’s guilty.

—Andrew Young

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the right to vote for all Americans over the age of 18.

—Andrew Young

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Age And Aging
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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...

—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...

—Andrew Young

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They are some of the best entry level jobs that are available to poor people. And they also make products available to the working poor.

—Andrew Young

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Jobs
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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...

—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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Rosa Parks was the inspiration… simply by the act of her being who she was, a sweet and loving and simple child of God who refused to let anybody or anything force her to compromise...

—Andrew Young

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Our Churches sought to do the same through teaching preaching missions, social and political action. We have always been a leader in progressive movements in faith, action, government and mission. But, I think we may...

—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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

—Andrew Young

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Why do we vote on Tuesday? Why don’t we vote on the weekend?.

—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...

—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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The pluses outweigh the minuses. They do give benefits, they do have health insurance.

—Andrew Young

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Health
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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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Centennial Olympic Park paved the way for the aquarium and the World of Coke. It laid out new possibilities for the city. And I think [the satellite development] is just getting started.

—Andrew Young

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This is my first play.

—Andrew Young

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I was raised that way: don’t get mad, get smart.

—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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If there was ever was a triumph of the human spirit, it was in the young people of Georgia, from Connecticut, from Kentucky, from England, from all over all over the world, who were victims...

—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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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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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...

—Andrew Young

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By ignoring the rural South and the inner cities and Hispanic markets, most businesses are ignoring the most lucrative market available on the face of the Earth.

—Andrew Young

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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

—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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We’re here to proclaim a victory. We’re here, not to wallow in tragedy, but to celebrate a triumph of the human spirit.

—Andrew Young

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With this, I had to learn and develop a character over time.

—Andrew Young

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Character
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.

—Andrew Young

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

—Andrew Young

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