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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.

Andrew Young

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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 had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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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 I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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 Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
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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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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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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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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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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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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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