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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
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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'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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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