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.

Andrew Young

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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?

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One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

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To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but requi... by Andrew Young

To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.

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Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.

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I think our real niche was hope, if I could put it that way, there wasn't much hope in terms of the constant lockdowns, increase in cases, closed down schools. So to me Vaccine Hunters Canada represented hope and the niche that it filled is that it connected all the provinces with its rollout strategies so we had a consolidated platform for Canadians nationwide.

Like people said in March, it was like the' Hunger Games'( for vaccines), hospital systems were crashing, and the supply wasn't there, right now, I can tell you I'm a lot more relaxed.

I still see us as pretty important in terms of helping get the word out, helping amplify the voices of certain groups who needs a little boost.

They're still a few of us around, but not really many.

He didn't make it to 40. He made it to 39, some of the rest of us who made it are obligated to keep on trying. There is no giving up, no giving in, no retirement because we've come too far from where we started from. And nobody told us that the way would be easy, but I don't believe he brought us this far to leave us...

Our country has been founded on the myth that Black people are inferior, and everybody White is taught to believe that.

I can't think of a happier life.

It says a lot about the way his mother and father raised him, he was a child of the South, he was a child of racism, but he never let it bother him publicly. He never let it slow him down or change his focus in life.