159 Quotes by Andrew Young

"I'm not ashamed of Salt Lake for inviting people to come to school and giving scholarships, ... I'm proud of them for doing it."

"The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport."

"I like to fight poverty. For almost 10 years, I've been using in my sermons the message that fighting poverty is good business, and I've used Wal-Mart as an example. The question is how do you fight poverty with high wages or low prices? The answer is both."

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

"If there was ever was a triumph of the human spirit, it was in the young people of Georgia, from Connecticut, from Kentucky, from England, from all over all over the world, who were victims of this incident. (They) were only looking forward to getting on with their lives and many of them hoping to get out of the hospital in time to get back to the games."

"On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired."

"By ignoring the rural South and the inner cities and Hispanic markets, most businesses are ignoring the most lucrative market available on the face of the Earth."

"I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect."

"We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation."

"Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making."