Andrew Young Quotes

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.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.

My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

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.

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.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.

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

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)