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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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 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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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