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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
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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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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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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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 said America had given a bad check to black 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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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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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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