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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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 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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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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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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