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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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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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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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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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