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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
Copiers
Xerox
Diplomats
Diplomacy
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Died

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The man with courage is a majority.
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Everybody is determined by his own experience.
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The Soviet Union is going to have a human-rights explosion. You'll have hundreds of thousands of dissidents.
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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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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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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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I always quoted to my parents from Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet. Your children are not your children. They come through you, but not from you. You can give them your love, but not your thoughts, for they come from a land that you cannot enter, not even in your wildest dreams.
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Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
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It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
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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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It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
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Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.
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Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.
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Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.
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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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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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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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Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.
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