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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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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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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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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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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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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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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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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