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I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the

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"I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there"

- Birch Bayh

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This quote is written / told by Birch Bayh somewhere between January 22, 1928 and today. He/she was a famous Politician from USA. The author also have 20 other quotes.

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