Andrew Young Quotes

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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.
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.
You have to start living for something that's worth dying for.
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