Latest Andrew Young Quotes from Interviews

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• Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, War, Thinking

• My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Needs, Research

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

• I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet." Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.

  Andrew Young

  Dream, Children, Land

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

• My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.

  Andrew Young

  Baseball, Player, College

• More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

  Andrew Young

  Son, Thinking, Listen To Me

• If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.

  Andrew Young

  Littles, Speak The Truth, Controversy

  Source: www.pbs.org

• He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

  Andrew Young

  Kings, Choices, Dying

  Source: www.nbcnews.com