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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

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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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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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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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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