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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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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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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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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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