Andrew Young Quotes
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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.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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.
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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.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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.
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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.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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