Andrew Young Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)
Andrew Young quotes and sayings page 7 (92 year old clergyman). Here's quote # 61 through 70 out of the 73 we have for him.
“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 grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.”
“My feeling is that you don't go looking for troubles. The cross ought to find you. And so I never go out of my way. I figure I only get involved in things that I can't get around.”
“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.”
“When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.”
“To find people who don't want anything is rare.”
“If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.”
“One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.”
“There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.”
“Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.”
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