“Don’t get mad — get smart,” Andrew Young’s father, Andrew Sr., once told him, growing up in New Orleans in the midst of racial tensions.
Young would learn not to flare up in anger amid the discrimination but to stay calm and in control of his feelings. “If you lose your temper, you lose the fight,” he recalled recently.
This is how Young has lived his life and been successful in changing history. After graduating from college, Young didn’t know what to pursue in life. During this period, Martin Luther King, Jr had become famous for his role in the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott to oppose racial segregation…