Andrew Young

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.

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.

Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.

Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

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

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

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

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

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