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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

Andrew Young

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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