Andrew Young Quotes
In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Young, Andrew. An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America. HarperCollins, 1996.
He had just begun his term of office. The UN was bureaucratic, inefficient, incompetent in many areas, biased, arrogant, and wasteful with some corruption. This was such an understatement that the quotation became cited.
He was totally wrong. This quotation is important because the cultural and practical value of new science or technology is often very unclear to the scientists and inventors themselves. Until humans start to integrate the science and use the technology, the cultural, ethical, and political patterns of usage are not easily predicted. Humans are the unpredictable elements of the system.
It is not our business to collect trophies but to try … [to] bring back the world to peaceful habits
Many in England and the other allies wanted to punish France for their aggression under Napoleon by barring France from the Concert of Europe—an informal institution of the major powers of Europe. Castlereagh’s view prevailed and France was included.
Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early leader in the civil rights movement, serving as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a close confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. Young later became active in politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman from Georgia, United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the Carter Administration, and 55th Mayor of Atlanta. Since leaving office, Young has founded or served in many organizations working on issues of public policy and political lobbying.
