American - Clergyman | March 12, 1932 -
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Andrew Young
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
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There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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