Best Andrew Young Sayings
- What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. Iran
- Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. All
- 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… Act
- Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been… Act
- I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a… Been
- 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… Atlanta
- If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black… America
- 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… Ballot
- 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… Action
- 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… Clear
- There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always… Actively
- What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read… African
- When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you… Ambassador
- Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for… Annihilates
- 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… America
- There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can… Change
- Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making… Benefits
- Violence is not more efficient than non-violence. Efficient
- There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There… Barack
- One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them. Better
- I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner… Another Corner
- There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S. Middle
- To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required. Expected
- Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. Day