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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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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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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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 hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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 think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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