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
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.
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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.
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.