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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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 stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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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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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 rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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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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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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