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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.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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The two are not mutually exclusive, but we think we can have wealth without good ideas and without values and without a clear vision. Wealth without vision is insanity.
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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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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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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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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 had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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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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