Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

He later was re-elected in 1974 and in 1976. In 1996 Young wrote A Way Out of No Way: The Spiritual Memoirs of Andrew Young publiAndrew Youngd by Thomas Nelson. Young played a key role in the events in Birmingham Alabama serving as a mediator between the white and black communities.

Andrew Jackson Young (born March 12 1932) is an American politician diplomat activist and pastor from Georgia. He has served the Mayor of Atlanta a Congressman from the 5th district and United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Since leaving political office in 1989 Young has founded or served in a large number of organizations founded on public policy political lobbying and international relations with a special focus on Africa.