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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.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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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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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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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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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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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 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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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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