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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
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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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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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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