Andrew Young

“Nonviolence is a universal principle of spiritual and practical wisdom.”

“If you have a problem, if you have a fire, do you complain about the problem or do you get a bucket and put out the fire?”

“Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.”

“From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.”

“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.”

“In a world of turmoil and uncertainty, it is more important than ever to make our families the center of our lives and the top of our priorities.”

“I was taught that the world is a neighborhood, and I am my brother's and sister's keeper.”

“The private sector is the real engine of economic growth.”

“The work of the civil rights movement was to make the United States a multiracial, multi-ethnic, and multicultural democracy.”

“Forgiveness is a prerequisite for reconciliation.”

“We think it is complicated to change the world. Change is not complicated, we are.”