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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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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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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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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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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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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 nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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