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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You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

Andrew Young

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.

Andrew Young

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Andrew Young

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

Andrew Young

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.

Andrew Young

When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.

Andrew Young

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

Andrew Young

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 ...

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

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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.

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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN ambassador (b. 1932)

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

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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