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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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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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'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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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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 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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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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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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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.
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