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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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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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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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 was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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 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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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