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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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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'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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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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