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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
Andrew Young
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
Andrew Young
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Andrew Young
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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.
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
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
Andrew Young
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
Andrew Young
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
Andrew Young
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
Andrew Young
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
Andrew Young
I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
Andrew Young
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
Andrew Young
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
