Quote

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

Andrew Young

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
Black
Together
Citizens
Struggle
Freedom
White

More quotes by Andrew Young

Image
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
Andrew Young
Image
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
Andrew Young
Image
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Andrew Young
Image
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
Andrew Young
Image
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Andrew Young
Image
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
Andrew Young
Image
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Andrew Young
Image
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young