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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

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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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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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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