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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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 believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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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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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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