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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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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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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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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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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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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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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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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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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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