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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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 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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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