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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
Andrew Jackson Young
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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 hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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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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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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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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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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