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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.

Andrew Young

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
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New Orleans
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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