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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

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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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