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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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.
Andrew Young
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Andrew Young
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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.
Andrew Young
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
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
