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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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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