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The man with courage is a majority.

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
Majority
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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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 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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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