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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.

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
Sport
Sports
Commercialization
Democratization

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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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