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“It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.”

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Andrew Young, born on March 12, 1932, is a former Mayor of Atlanta. He played a significant role in the civil rights movement and achieved notable accomplishments in politics and diplomacy. more

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“Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.”

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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 wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.”

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