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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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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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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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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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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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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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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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