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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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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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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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