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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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New Orleans
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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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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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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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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'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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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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 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 believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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