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 there's just going to be an outpouring of gifts. People are good and hungry for an opportunity to do good.
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.
I'm not ashamed of Salt Lake for inviting people to come to school and giving scholarships, ... I'm proud of them for doing it.
If there was ever was a triumph of the human spirit, it was in the young people of Georgia, from Connecticut, from Kentucky, from England, from all over all over the world, who were victims of this incident. (They) were only looking forward to getting on with their lives and many of them hoping to get out of the hospital in time to get back to the games.
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.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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.
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
That does a significant amount of damage to you. People have such negative opinions of politicians. They always assume politicians are guilty.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
I think the whole movement, both in the black community and in the federal government and in big business, is sort of floundering.
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.