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 think the whole movement, both in the black community and in the federal government and in big business, is sort of floundering.
There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.
It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn. That's OK, and there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends. All the grain that's grown in Iowa and Illinois, and the huge industrial output of the Midwest has to come down the Mississippi River, and there has to be a port to handle it, to keep a functioning economy in the United States of America.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
I think there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.
Without all of this, ... Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton might never have been elected president.
Martin's real dream was to be a preacher at this church.
Why do we vote on Tuesday? Why don't we vote on the weekend?.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.