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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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You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.
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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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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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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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