37 Andrew Young Quotes for You to Enjoy

Andrew Young

American Clergyman

Born: Mar 12, 1932

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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. Andrew Young

Truth Freedom Democracy Change Progress Without Controversy

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? Andrew Young

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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation. Andrew Young

Change Generation World Complicated Nothing Think Change The World Worthwhile Happen Little

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

Smart Way Mad Get Raised

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

Freedom Struggle Together Black Black And White White Citizens Only

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. Andrew Young

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

You Savings Savings Account More Like Got Account Influence Use Less

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. Andrew Young

Teacher Good Day Me You Nice Once Kind Only Write Students Had Put Most Until Principal She Well Arms Sure Around Said Motivation Office Send Wanted Anything Teachers Who Ever Her Need

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

You Blessing Cause Nothing Easily Because Die

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. Andrew Young

Party Sense Changed Longer Suppression Lincoln Republican Republican Party Flipped

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. Andrew Young

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. Andrew Young

Day Vote Rights Law Voting Free Once Signed Would Having More Could Wrong Voting Rights How Were August Been Truly Begin American Being Personally Act Believing Watched Imagine

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. Andrew Young

More Non-Violence Efficient Than Violence

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. Andrew Young

Better Black White Would Running District Percent More Had Comfortable Been Than Get Where Elected Much Congressman

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

Welfare Black Liberal Rules Up Families Break Break Up Much Slavery

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. Andrew Young

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

Best You Power Moral More Use Used Less

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

Nothing Hundred Decide Illegal Businessmen

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

People Rare Find Want Anything Who

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

Innocent Black White Guilty No-One He Thinks

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

You Sense Living Eloquently Talk Make Learn Nonsense Preacher Even

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