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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
Citizens
Struggle
Freedom
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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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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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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 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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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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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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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