Andrew Young Quotes

• Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

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• We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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• Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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• To find people who don’t want anything is rare.

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• The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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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.

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• Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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

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

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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.

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• Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you’ll find many of them are unwise.

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• It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

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• Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.

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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.

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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.

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• I tried. But not everybody thought so.

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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.

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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.

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

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• Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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Andrew Young (20)

Birth:	12th March, 1932
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Diplomat, Pastor, Politician

About

Andrew Jackson Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Since leaving political office in 1989, Young has founded or served in a large number of organizations founded on public policy, political lobbying and international relations, with a special focus on Africa. Young graduated from Howard University and earned a divinity degree from Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1955. Young was appointed to serve as pastor of a church in Marion, Alabama. Young moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1961, and again worked on drives to register black voters. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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