Quotes by Andrew Young
We know you are enslaved when you are in a democracy without the right to vote, but when you are in a free enterprise system, in capitalism, without equal access to capital, we still have problems. Equal access to capital means equal access also to education and employment opportunity, so we still have a long way to go on Martin Luther King's dream.
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
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.
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 wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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.
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.
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.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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.
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.
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.
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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.
