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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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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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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 think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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 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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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 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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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