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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
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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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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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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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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 was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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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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There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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