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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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