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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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 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
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
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
Andrew Young
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
Andrew Young
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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.
Andrew Young
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
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
Andrew Young
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Andrew Young
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Andrew Young
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Andrew Young
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
Andrew Young