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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
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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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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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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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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