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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

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
Freedom
White
Black
Together
Citizens
Struggle

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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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