Andrew Young

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.

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've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.

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.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

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.

What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

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