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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

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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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Capitalism
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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 stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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