Will Young
Will Young
William Robert "Will" Youngis an English singer-songwriter and actor who came to prominence after winning the 2002 inaugural series of the British music contest Pop Idol, making him the first winner of the worldwide Idol franchise. His double A-sided debut single "Anything Is Possible" / "Evergreen" was released two weeks after the show's finale and became the fastest-selling debut single in the UK. Young also came in fifth place in World Idol performing his single "Light My Fire"...
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth20 January 1979
CityWokingham, England
Some kind of affirmative action is important in a democracy and for economic competitiveness and national security. The Army was the first to realize that you had to have desegregation of a military to have it working properly.
I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
To find people who don't want anything is rare.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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.
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.
Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
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.
The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.