Andrew Young Quotes

Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

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.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

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

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

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.

The man with courage is a majority.

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

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.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

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

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

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.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

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.

If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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.

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

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

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

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

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

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

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

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.