"Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got"
"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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Andrew Young
Civil Rights Leader
Andrew Young is a prominent civil rights leader and diplomat known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement and as a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
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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."
"My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts."
"In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival."
"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."
"Beauty and love are all my dream; They change not with the changing day; Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away."