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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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 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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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 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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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