Words matter. These are the best Andrew Young Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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.
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.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you’ll find many of them are unwise.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn’t learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
I think we’ve made tremendous progress on racism. We’ve even made progress on war. We’ve made almost no progress on poverty.
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.
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.
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.
No one who’s white thinks he’s innocent. No one who’s black thinks he’s guilty.
If I hadn’t been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn’t have wanted me.
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.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you’ve got.
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?
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.
To whom much is given, much is required – not expected, but required.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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.
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
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.
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.
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.
You have to start living for something that’s worth dying for.
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.
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn’t kill anybody and he didn’t get anyone killed.
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.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
I was raised that way: don’t get mad, get smart.
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don’t blame poor people for being poor.