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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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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 world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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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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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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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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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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