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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
Louisiana
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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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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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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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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