Andrew Young Quotes

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Andrew Young

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : March 12, 1932

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

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Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

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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.

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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.

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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

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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.

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

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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.

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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

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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.

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

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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.

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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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You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

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One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

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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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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.

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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.

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