Andrew Young Quotes

Biography
Type: Clergyman
Nationality: American
Born: March 12, 1932

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

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

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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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