Quotes by Andrew Young

“It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.”

“My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.”

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

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

“If youre a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you dont make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.”

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

“We rise in glory as we sink in pride.”

“Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and thats true anywhere in the world”

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

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)

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Ive 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.

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principals office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, You sure write well. And Ive had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. Thats the kind of motivation that students need.

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

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.

If Congress can move Presidents Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther Kings Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldnt they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, lets make America work, lets make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

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 men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.