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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
Invented
Died

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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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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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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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In a sane, civil, intelligent and moral society, you don't blame poor people for being poor.
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Beauty and love are all my dream They change not with the changing day Love stays forever like a stream That flows but never flows away.
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On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.
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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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We were trying to transform America, not triumph over white folk.
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The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
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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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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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Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
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My daddy was determined to make me a dentist and a baseball player. And I loved my daddy but I wasted four years of college trying to do what he wanted me to do, and not what I felt I wanted to do.
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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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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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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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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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Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got
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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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For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.
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