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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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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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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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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
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