Andrew Young quotes - page 2

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everybody is determined by his own experience. View quote
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules. View quote
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back. View quote
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime. View quote
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future. View quote
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district. View quote
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. View quote
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. View quote
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement. View quote
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth. View quote
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry. View quote
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day. (Andrew Young)
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street. View quote
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making. View quote
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts. View quote
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. View quote
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