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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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New Orleans
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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