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To find people who don't want anything is rare.

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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
Rare
Anything
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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 think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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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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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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 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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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