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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
Andrew Young
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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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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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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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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