The best Quotes by Andrew Young

The best Quotes by Andrew Young

Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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

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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King

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It's better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for what you're not.

Martin Luther King

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Character Honesty

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King

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We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King

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Teams Brothers Community

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Martin Luther King

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I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that!
Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

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Love Hatred Wisdom

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

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Tolerance USA Independence Day

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Martin Luther King

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If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do - you have to keep moving forward.

Martin Luther King

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Progress Self-Confidence Motivation Positive Quotes

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King

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Revolution Opinions

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King - Rede in St. Louis

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War Peace Brothers Volkstrauertag

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King - during Montgomery Bus Boycotts

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King

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Vision Tolerance Human Rights 1963 Famous Quotes

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

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Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Martin Luther King

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Love Friendship Enemies & Opponents

I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom.

Martin Luther King

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King

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Humanity Weapons Science Morality Spirituality

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Martin Luther King

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King

Freedom Revolution

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King

Wise Sayings Helping

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Martin Luther King

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Martin Luther King

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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Decisions Morality

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

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Decisions Morality

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

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Warriors Morality

Young boys should never be sent to bed... they always wake up a day older.

Finding Neverland

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Children & Childhood Bed

You just sent the most powerful man in Westeros to bed without his supper.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

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Self-Deception Bed

I invented something that prevents you from getting wet when it's raining.
I call it a bed.

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Bed Introvertierte Sprüche

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

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