Andrew To
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Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
luxury rights political
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
effort decision action
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
rights movement lessons
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
parent said found
I wouldn't listen to my parents, but I found out that I absorbed. I never heard what they said - told me - but I did what they did.
diplomats diplomacy copiers
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
outspoken wanted carter
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
kings hands land
I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to work with us to have a national ID card that is free and accessible. President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King recognized was the greatest step for society was that short step into the voting booth. If we are to be true to their courage and conviction, we must make that short step as easy as possible. Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
rights unions explosions
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
rights long voting
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.
society secrecy diplomacy
Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.
kings race america
Martin Luther King said America had given a bad check to black people.
kings war thinking
Martin Luther King was talking about racism, war and poverty. I think we have made progress enormous progress in racism and war, but we have made little or no progress in poverty. And it's because the economy has gotten more and more complex as we have globalized.
creative fleeting frozen
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
expression design significant
My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.