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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.
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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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 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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
Andrew Young
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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