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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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