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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.

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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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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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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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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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