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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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