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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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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 like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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