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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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