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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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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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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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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.
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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