“Don’t get mad, get smart” is a phrase that former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young’s father taught him. Young spoke about this phrase and its relevance as the keynote speaker during MU’s celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Jan. 26, as well as at a media briefing the day before. “[My father] said [that] when you get angry, the blood rushes from your head, your brain stops working and you will inevitably do something stupid,” Young said at the media brief. “I think that's an even more relevant guidance today than it was 80 years ago when he gave it to me.”