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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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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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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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