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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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 were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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