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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.

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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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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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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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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 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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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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