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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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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 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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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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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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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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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 happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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