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
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.
My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
I tried. But not everybody thought so.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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.
Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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.
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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.
If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.
Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
