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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.

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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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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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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