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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
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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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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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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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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