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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
Tried
Everybody
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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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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 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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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