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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 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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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The man with courage is a majority.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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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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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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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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