Quotes from Andrew Young

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.

Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

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.

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.

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

In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

Our school systems have to realize that everybody doesn't learn the same way, and no one learns without some emotional support.

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

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

Everybody is determined by his own experience.

Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

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.

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