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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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