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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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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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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 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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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