Andrew Young quotes

Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
- Andrew Young

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

Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
- Andrew Young

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.
- Andrew Young

Everybody is determined by his own experience.
- Andrew Young

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
- Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
- Andrew Young

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don’t blame poor people for being poor.
- Andrew Young

I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
- Andrew Young

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

The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
- Andrew Young

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

I see the war problem as an economic problem, a business problem, a cultural problem, an educational problem - everything but a military problem. There's no military solution. There is a business solution - and the sooner we can provide jobs, not with our money, but the United States has to provide the framework.
- Andrew Young

The man with courage is a majority.
- Andrew Young

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
- Andrew Young

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
- Andrew Young

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
- Andrew Young

Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it’s because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
- Andrew Young

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.
- Andrew Young

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
- Andrew Young

No one who’s white thinks he’s innocent. No one who’s black thinks he’s guilty.
- Andrew Young

Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
- Andrew Young