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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
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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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 would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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