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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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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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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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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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