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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

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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
Kingdoms
Luxury
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Many
Expired
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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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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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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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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