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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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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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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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