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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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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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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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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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