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
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.
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.