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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
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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