Andrew Young

Clergyman

1932-03-12

Andrew Young is an American civil rights leader, diplomat, and former mayor of Atlanta who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Quotes by Andrew Young

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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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.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
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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.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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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 those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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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.
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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.
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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world.
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