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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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 hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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