Andrew Young
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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.
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.
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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.
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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.
When I took the SAT, I didn't get accepted into a single white school that I applied to. Now I've got honorary degrees from a lot of those schools that rejected me. Things are different now, but not that much different.
Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.
There is no safer place to put your money than in the middle of the U.S.
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.
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.
I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've gotCollection: Political
Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Dream
He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.Collection: Kings
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.Collection: Islands
I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.Collection: Dream
The man with courage is a majority.Collection: Courage
When the long, varnished buds of beech Point out beyond their reach, And tanned by summer suns Leaves of bright bryony turn bronze, And gossamer floats bright and wet From trees that are their own sunset, Spring, summer, autumn I come here, And what is there to fear? And yet I never lose the feeling That someone else behind is stealing Or else in front has disappeared; Though nothing I have seen or heard, Makes me still walk beneath these boughs With cautious step as in a haunted house.Collection: Summer
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.Collection: Rays
You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.Collection: World
Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.Collection: Black
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.Collection: White
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.Collection: Littles
There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.Collection: People
I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.Collection: Kings
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.Collection: Rights
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.Collection: Gay
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.Collection: Self
My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.Collection: Thinking
Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.Collection: Black
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.Collection: Kings
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.Collection: Kings
More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.Collection: Son
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.Collection: Dream
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.Collection: Society
Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.Collection: Nike
There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.Collection: Land