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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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