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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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Tried
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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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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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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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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