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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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 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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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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 commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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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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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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I think we've made tremendous progress on racism. We've even made progress on war. We've made almost no progress on poverty.
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I'm against voter fraud in any form, and I have long supported a national voter ID card. But ID cards need not - and must not - restrict voting rights in any way, shape or form.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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