Andrew Young

“I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I tried. But not everybody thought so.”

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

“To find people who don't want anything is rare.”

“What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.”

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

“I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.”

“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.”

“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.”

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