Quotes by Andrew Young
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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?
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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.
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.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
