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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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
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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
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
Andrew Young
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
Andrew Young
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
Andrew Young
My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
Andrew Young
The man with courage is a majority.
Andrew Young
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Andrew Young
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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 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
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
Andrew Young
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
Andrew Young
