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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
Commercialization
Democratization
Sport
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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