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Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.

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Andrew Young
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: March 12
Diplomat
Film Producer
Former Mayor Of Atlanta
Human Rights Activist
Peace Activist
Politician
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Andrew Jackson Young
Xerox
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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.
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Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.
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Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.
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I tried. But not everybody thought so.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.
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I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and fairness and mutual respect.
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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently.
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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.
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What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.
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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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I would define morality as enlightened self-interest...That old Platonic ideal that there are certain pure moral forms just isn't where we are.
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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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We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
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To find people who don't want anything is rare.
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If all I get is a little controversy for speaking the truth, if I did less, I would not be worth living.
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