Andrew Young Quotes

Andrew Young is an American civil rights leader, politician, and clergyman. He played a prominent role in the civil rights movement alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Young served as the mayor of Atlanta and as a United States ambassador to the United Nations. He has been a lifelong advocate for social justice and equality, working to address racial and economic disparities. Young's contributions to the civil rights movement and his efforts in diplomacy have made him a respected figure in American history.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, y... -Andrew Young

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

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. ... -Andrew Young

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

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor ... -Andrew Young

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

Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy.

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

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.... -Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool ref... -Andrew Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

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

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

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

There is no safer place to put your money than in ... -Andrew Young

There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

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.

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

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

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

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.

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

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.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.... -Andrew Young

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

The commercialization of sport is the democratizat... -Andrew Young

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.... -Andrew Young

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen deci... -Andrew Young

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

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn... -Andrew Young

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

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

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