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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.

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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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