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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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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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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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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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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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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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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 wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
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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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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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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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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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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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I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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