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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
Black
Together
Citizens
Struggle
Freedom
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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