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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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