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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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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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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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