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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
Invented
Died
Copiers
Xerox
Diplomats
Diplomacy

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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.
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My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.
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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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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.
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Our children lost our direction because they have been compromised. They have found freedom at the ballot box, and then they have taken on plastic chains around their minds and souls and mortgage their future on credit cards. They have to learn better - they have to learn the value of ideas and health as opposed to wealth.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.
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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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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.
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Nobody Black had learned anything from the `Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the `I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
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I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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Bill [Clinton] is every bit as black as Barack. He's probably gone with more black women than Barack.
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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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