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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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