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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
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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 is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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