Andrew Young

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. ”

Egypt's problem is that you've got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We've got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That's not America's role totally. ”

There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress. ”