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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
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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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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.
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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.
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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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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
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No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth.
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When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.
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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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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.
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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.
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Any racial reconciliation we've had in this country has come not out of confrontation but out of a spirit of reconciliation. If we continue to practice an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we'll eventually end up with a land of people who are blind and toothless.
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Both the brightness and the spectrum of the X-rays are very different from what theory predicts.
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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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