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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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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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