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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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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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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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 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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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