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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
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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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 wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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