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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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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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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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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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