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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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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 were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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 had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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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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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 tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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