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Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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