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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got

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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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