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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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I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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The man with courage is a majority.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.
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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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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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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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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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