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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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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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 was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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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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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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