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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
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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 had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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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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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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