Andrew Young Quotes

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• We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
• No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
• I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if…
• Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
• We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
• No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
• I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
• The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
• Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
• On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
• The man with courage is a majority.
• There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
• We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
• When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer…
• Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to…
• The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
• 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…
• I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson…
• Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed…
• You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

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