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

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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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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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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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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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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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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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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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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