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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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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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