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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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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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