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I tried. But not everybody thought so.

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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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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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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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