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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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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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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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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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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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