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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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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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'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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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