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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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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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