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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
Diplomat
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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New Orleans
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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