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

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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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