Quotes by Andrew Young

About Andrew Young:

Andrew Jackson Young, Jr is an American politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) during the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

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

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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 ...

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Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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

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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn bette...

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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 wit...

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There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.

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

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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

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There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

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Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.

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

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameAndrew Young
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, diplomat, activist and pastor from Georgia
  • AliasesAndrew Jackson Young
  • BornMarch 12, 1932
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Politician; Diplomat
  • AwardsSpingarn Medal; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Worship