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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.

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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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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 man with courage is a majority.
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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 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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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