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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
Andrew Young
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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
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Former Mayor Of Atlanta
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New Orleans
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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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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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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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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