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Everybody is determined by his own experience.

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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
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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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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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