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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
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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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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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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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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'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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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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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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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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I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.
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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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There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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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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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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