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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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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.
Andrew Young
If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
Andrew Young
On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
Andrew Young
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
Andrew Young
Everybody is determined by his own experience.
Andrew Young
Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
Andrew Young
Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
Andrew Young
We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
Andrew Young
The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
Andrew Young
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Andrew Young
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.
Andrew Young
