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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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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
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New Orleans
Louisiana
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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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.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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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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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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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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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.
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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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