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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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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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