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

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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.

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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.

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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 w...

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

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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

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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.

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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

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Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

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

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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

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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