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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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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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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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