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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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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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