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A Civil Rights icon shares his remarkable path from pastor to MLK's ally, congressman, UN Ambassador, and Atlanta mayor, | dG1fbndDM1FLaHJjNnc
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00:00It didn't look like a promising job.
00:05Now I will call for Andrew Young, that dedicated leader.
00:10Nobody really wanted to go work for Martin Luther King.
00:13He had been stabbed, bombed, jailed,
00:17and he didn't have any money.
00:19The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
00:21spearheading the passive resistance movement.
00:24Martin Luther King was looking for an assistant
00:27to do all the dirty work.
00:29When there was something that needed to be done
00:31and nobody wanted to do it, that was my job.
00:35We will use the dogs if they start drawing knives again.
00:38We will use the holes.
00:40We don't intend to quit this fight
00:42until we get our situation resolved.
00:44My assignment was to find somebody to negotiate with.
00:48They were looking for a fight.
00:50We say to all of the Jews and Nick,
00:52they'll get burned before it's over with.
00:55Somebody came up behind me and hit me.
00:58I remember somebody kicking me in my stomach.
01:00And I felt around looking for a sore place
01:02and there wasn't any there.
01:04We were soldiers.
01:07Soldiers without violence, without hatred.
01:10This is a revolution that won't fire a shot.
01:13I was expected to oversee all of the things that were going on.
01:19We are marching for you.
01:21A shot rang out.
01:23He fell.
01:26When I saw him, there was no hope.
01:29The last thing we agreed on was that we had to take the movement into politics.
01:34Congressman Andrew Young.
01:36Andrew Young has emerged.
01:38Young drew louder applause than the president.
01:40Andy Young is the best.
01:41Certainly no stranger to controversy.
01:43Ambassador Young acted on his own.
01:46I've been through many dangers, toils and snares.
01:51If I had to take a few kicks and licks to get a civil rights act,
01:55I'd do it any day of the week.
01:59That's what I call the dirty work.
02:25You have to raise.
02:29We'll see you there.
02:31The last thing I've seen is that I'm going to do with my friends
02:34in the hard days.
02:35And I'm just going to do that one day.
02:36The last thing I'm looking for,
02:38is that I could make a lot of people of my friends.
02:39I mean, this has been an unknown,
02:40but I'm the only one of my friends.
02:42And I'm going to hear the little more time.
02:44There's nothing else.
02:46I'm hoping for this question we're going to do.
02:50The last thing, that's why I'm getting a disease.
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