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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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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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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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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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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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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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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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I had to get a second passport in a hurry.
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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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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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Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
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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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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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