Andrew Young

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.

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

No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.

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

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

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

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.