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
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.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
I'm not ashamed of Salt Lake for inviting people to come to school and giving scholarships, ... I'm proud of them for doing it.
Nothing is illegal if a hundred businessmen decide to do it, and that's true anywhere in the world
It's hard not to have friends. In fact, as soon as you become mayor, everybody is your friend. They might use your name in a way you might not know anything about.
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.
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
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.
the right to vote for all Americans over the age of 18.
It would be no different than it is here. The Carter Center runs the programs and the parks service maintains the grounds and the buildings.