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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
Andrew Jackson Young
Carter
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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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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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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