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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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