Andrew Young Quotes

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Andrew Young

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : March 12, 1932

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

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Andrew Young

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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Andrew Young

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

Andrew Young

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

Andrew Young

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Andrew Young

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

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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.

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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

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.

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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 meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

Andrew Young

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

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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.

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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

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