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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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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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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 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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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