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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
Determined
Everybody
Experience

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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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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 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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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