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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

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
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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