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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
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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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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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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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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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