Andrew Young Quotes (54 Quotes)


    With this, I had to learn and develop a character over time.

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

    The pluses outweigh the minuses. They do give benefits, they do have health insurance.

    See, for good or bad before when we the board met, we just did whatever Coretta wanted us to do.

    Centennial Olympic Park paved the way for the aquarium and the World of Coke. It laid out new possibilities for the city. And I think the satellite development is just getting started.


    Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

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

    There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

    For those who care about the poor, it is time to step up, speak out and join this national discussion.

    I think the whole movement, both in the black community and in the federal government and in big business, is sort of floundering.

    the right to vote for all Americans over the age of 18.

    really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.

    They are some of the best entry level jobs that are available to poor people. And they also make products available to the working poor.

    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.

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

    We say those who suffered here ... your suffering is not in vain. We assure you that we, the children of the world, will learn new lessons. We will define the future, not hatred, not bitterness, not alienation. But joy (and) happiness.


    Why do we vote on Tuesday Why don't we vote on the weekend.

    For me, happiness came from prayer to a kindly God, faith in a kindly God, love for my fellow man, and doing the very best I could every day of my life. I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there, either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness, and life for me began to flow like a stream between smooth banks.

    I like to fight poverty. For almost 10 years, I've been using in my sermons the message that fighting poverty is good business, and I've used Wal-Mart as an example. The question is how do you fight poverty with high wages or low prices The answer is both.

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

    Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world.

    Walking around in that suit and tie, he was in some danger. He was just another nigger, to put it bluntly, although I don't think he realized that.

    We're here to proclaim a victory. We're here, not to wallow in tragedy, but to celebrate a triumph of the human spirit.

    Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

    This time he wasn't so lucky. He was caught on camera... and I think he's going to be doing some jail time.

    That does a significant amount of damage to you. People have such negative opinions of politicians. They always assume politicians are guilty.

    It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn. That's OK, and there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends. All the grain that's grown in Iowa and Illinois, and the huge industrial output of the Midwest has to come down the Mississippi River, and there has to be a port to handle it, to keep a functioning economy in the United States of America.

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

    From my discussions with Michael, his finances were structured precisely according to his wishes. I understand the money is exactly where it is supposed to be.

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

    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.

    On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

    If there was ever was a triumph of the human spirit, it was in the young people of Georgia, from Connecticut, from Kentucky, from England, from all over all over the world, who were victims of this incident. (They) were only looking forward to getting on with their lives and many of them hoping to get out of the hospital in time to get back to the games.

    President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

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

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

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

    I think there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.

    Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.




    Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

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


    Martin's real dream was to be a preacher at this church.

    The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

    I understand that she was asleep last night and her daughter went in to wake her up and she was not able to and so she quietly slipped away. Her spirit will remain with us just as her husbands has.

    Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.


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