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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.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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