Andrew Young Quotes That Are advocacy, activism and leadership

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.

Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.

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

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

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

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

We think it is complicated to change the world.

Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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 didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

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

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 without vision is insanity.

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.

The man with courage is a majority.

I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet.

" Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

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

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.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

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.

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

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

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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

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.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

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

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

Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

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.

I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.

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.

I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

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.

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