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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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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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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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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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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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