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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
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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 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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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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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.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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