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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
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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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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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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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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