Quotes By Andrew Young

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.

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.

We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.