Andrew Young Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.”

“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.”

“The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.”

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

“Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.”

“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 sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.”

“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.”

“We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.”

“Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.”