Andrew Young Quotes - Page 2

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

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 fairness and mutual respect.

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 that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

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 don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

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

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

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 seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

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.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

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 you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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