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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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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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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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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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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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