[My father] used to say all the time, “You’re in a struggle, but if you get in a fight and lose your temper, you’ll lose the fight. So don’t get mad, get smart.”
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Andrew Young
Civil rights leader, US Ambassador to the United Nations, Mayor of Atlanta
United States · b. 1932
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Andrew Young is an American pastor, politician and diplomat who was a senior aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He later served in Congress, as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and as Mayor of Atlanta.
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Everything I did, and I think everything Martin Luther King did, was because we allowed our lives to be in tune with what we felt to be a divine purpose. And it didn’t matter whether we lived or died. It didn’t matter how much money we made, or what we accomplished.
Her lesson all the time was “To them to whom much has been given, of them will much be required.”
I knew what I had done wrong. I had followed the experts and put the money I had in television. The second time around I spent almost no money on television. The only money I spent on television, I spent on Ted Turner's station, late at night on something called Creature Feature and wrestling. Because those were things that I knew people looked at. But we spent most of our money organizing people door-to-door.
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