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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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