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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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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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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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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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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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