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  • Former Mayor Of Atlanta
  • born 1932
  • 102 quotes

Andrew Young, Former Mayor Of Atlanta (born 1932), is quoted 102 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are People, Black, Rights and Civil.

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The man with courage is a majority.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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

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

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

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

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

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

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

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

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

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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

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

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

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

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

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

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

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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