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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.

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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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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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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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 was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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