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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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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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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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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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