He didn't make it to 40. He made it to 39, some of the rest of us who made it are obligated to keep on trying. There is no giving up, no giving in, no retirement because we've come too far from where we started from. And nobody told us that the way would be easy, but I don't believe he brought us this far to leave us...

Andrew Young

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going... by Andrew Young

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. by Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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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.

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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is g... by Andrew Young

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

Everybody is determined by his own experience. by Andrew Young

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welf... by Andrew Young

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you us... by Andrew Young

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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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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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.

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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

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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.

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To find people who don't want anything is rare. by Andrew Young

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart. by Andrew Young

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll... by Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

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