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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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