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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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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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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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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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