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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.

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
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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.
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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.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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