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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.

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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
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New Orleans
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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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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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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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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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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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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