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Famous Andrew Young Quotes
“We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.”
Source: An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
Source: A way out of no way: the spiritual memoirs of Andrew Young
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”
“No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.”
“The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.”
“Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.”
“There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.”
Source: Quiet as moss: thirty-six poems
“The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.”
“You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.”