No one who’s white thinks he’s innocent. No one who’s black thinks he’s guilty. Andrew Young Read Quote
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. Andrew Young Read Quote
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with. Andrew Young Read Quote
Nobody black had learned anything from the ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people. Andrew Young Read Quote
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. Andrew Young Read Quote
If you’re a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don’t make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. Andrew Young Read Quote
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That’s what I’ve been doing all my life. Andrew Young Read Quote
Profits should be for a purpose. Profits should be productive. You should make money for producing benefits that make the world a better place. Making money is a good thing when it is made in service to humanity or the democracy. Andrew Young Read Quote
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. Andrew Young Read Quote
