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Andrew Young [1932-0] American

Rank: 102
Clergyman, Former Mayor of Atlanta

Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta.

Birthday, Freedom, Government, Power, Respect, Society, Sports, Teacher, War

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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.		101
Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.	Government	102
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.	Society, War	103
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.		104
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.		105
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.		106
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.		107
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.		108
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.		109
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.		110
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.		111
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.		112
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.	Freedom	113
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.	Sports	114
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.		115
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.		116
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.	Teacher	117
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.		118
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.		119
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.		120
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.		121
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.		122
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.		123
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.		124
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.		125
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.		126
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.		201
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.	Respect	202
There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.		203
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.		204
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.	Power	205
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.		206
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.		207
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.		208
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.		209
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.		210
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.		211
Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.		212
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.		213
Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally.		214
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.		215
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.		216
Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.		217
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 you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.		218
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?	Birthday	219
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.		220
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.		221
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.		222
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.		223
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.		224
I tried. But not everybody thought so.		225
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.		226
My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.		301
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.		302
I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.		303
Everybody is determined by his own experience.		304
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.		305
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.		306
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.		307
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.		308
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.		309
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.		310
You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.		311
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.		312
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.		313
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.		314
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.		315
To find people who don't want anything is rare.		316
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.		317
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.		318
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.		319
One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.		320
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.		321

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