Rights Activist Quotes by Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.

— Andrew Young

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue…

— Andrew Young

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but…

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

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…

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of…

— Andrew Young

I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon…

— Andrew Young

“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)”

— Andrew Young

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

— Andrew Young

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich…

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young