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
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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.