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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
Men
Majority
Courage

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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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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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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 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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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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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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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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