Best 71 quotes of Andrew Young on MyQuotes

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

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.

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.

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

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

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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.

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

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

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.