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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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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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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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