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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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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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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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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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