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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
Andrew Young
Life
People
Civil rights
Leaders
Poor
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Andrew Young
God
Hope
Children
Voice
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Andrew Young
Power
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
Cause
Nothing
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
Andrew Young
Influence
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
Change
Survival
Violence
World
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
Living
Nonsense
Talk
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
Andrew Young
Thought
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.
Andrew Young
Life
Dream
Opportunity
American
Americans
Poor
Poverty
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.
Andrew Young
Thoughts
Wealth
Mind
State
Thinking
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Andrew Young
Bed
Luxury
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Andrew Young
Diplomacy
Xerox
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.
Andrew Young
President
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
Andrew Young
People
Want
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
Andrew Young
Men
Work
Day
Fool
Heaven
Reform
Tomorrow