Andrew Young

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

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

“My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.”

“When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.”

“There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress.”

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

“The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.”

“If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.”

“I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.”

“We rise in glory as we sink in pride.”

“Slavery didn't break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.”

“Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.”

“In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.”

“I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.”

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

“Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.”

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

“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.”

“Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.”

“Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.”