Quotes by Andrew Young

• We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
• Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
• Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
• Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
• To find people who don't want anything is rare.
• The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
• 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.
• On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
• Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
• It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
• Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
• No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
• 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.
• Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.