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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.

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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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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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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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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