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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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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
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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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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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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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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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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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