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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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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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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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