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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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 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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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