Quotes from Andrew Young

There were lots of smart black people at Harvard before Barack Obama, but none of them ever got to head up the law review. There has been a history of discrimination.

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

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

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

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.

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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

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.

You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.