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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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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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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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