Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Andrew Jackson Young, Jr.is an American politician, diplomat, activist, and pastor from Georgia. He has served as a Congressman from Georgia's 5th congressional district, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, and Mayor of Atlanta. He served as President of the National Council of Churches USA, was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenceduring the Civil Rights Movement, and was a supporter and friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 March 1932
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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.
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.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.