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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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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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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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