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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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

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

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

Andrew Young

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

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I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

Andrew Young

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Andrew Young

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

Andrew Young

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

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

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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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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.

Andrew Young

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.

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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

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

Andrew Young

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

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

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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

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

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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Andrew Young

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

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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