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

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
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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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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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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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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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 unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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