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
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
The man with courage is a majority.
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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.
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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.