American - Clergyman | March 12, 1932 -
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Andrew Young
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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