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…

— Andrew Young

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN…

— 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…

— 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

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

— Andrew Young

Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The…

— Andrew Young

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States.…

— Andrew Young

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

— Andrew Young

When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn…

— Andrew Young

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

— Andrew Young