Quote

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

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
Change
Worthwhile
Littles
Complicated
Little
Generation
Nothing
Generations
Think
Happen
Thinking
Comes
World
Inspirational
Happens

More quotes by 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
Image
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
Andrew Young
Image
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Andrew Young
Image
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
Image
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Andrew Young
Image
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
Andrew Young
Image
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Andrew Young
Image
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.
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
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
Andrew Young
Image
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
Andrew Young
Image
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
Andrew Young
Image
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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
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
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
Andrew Young
Image
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
Andrew Young
Image
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
Andrew Young
Image
I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
Andrew Young