Andrew Young

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. ”

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

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better. ”

I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did. ”

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. ”

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty. ”

We rise in glory as we sink in pride. ”

Everybody is determined by his own experience. ”

Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth. ”

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden. ”