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He [Martin Luther King Jr.] always used to say you have no choice about being born or dying. The only thing you have a choice about is what you die for.

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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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'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 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 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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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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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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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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The commercialization of sport is the democratization of sport.
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