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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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