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Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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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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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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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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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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I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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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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