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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.

Andrew Young

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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
Andrew Jackson Young
Pride
Sink
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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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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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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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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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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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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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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