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? – Andrew Young
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. – Andrew Young
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts. – Andrew Young
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don’t blame poor people for being poor. – Andrew Young
There’s no problem on the planet that can’t be solved without violence. That’s the lesson of the civil rights movement. – Andrew Young
Nobody black had learned anything from the ‘Letter from the Birmingham Jail’ or from the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. That was a revelation of white people. – Andrew Young
I like my life. I’ve had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it’s an easy burden. – Andrew Young
I’ve been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I’ve always loved to read. – Andrew Young
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together. – Andrew Young
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. – Andrew Young
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. – Andrew Young
Egypt’s problem is that you’ve got an economy that works for about 40 million people, only you have 90 million people. The answer to the Egyptian problem is not guns, but jobs. We’ve got to find a private-sector, nongovernmental, aggressive way of creating jobs. That’s not America’s role totally. – Andrew Young
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly. – Andrew Young
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. – Andrew Young
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. – Andrew Young
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter. – Andrew Young
If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with. – Andrew Young