American - Clergyman | March 12, 1932 -
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
Andrew Young
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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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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.
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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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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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We rise in glory as we sink in pride.
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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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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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Everything that has happened in my life is because of good government and because the United States of America was the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
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