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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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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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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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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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