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Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

Ken Livingstone

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Ken Livingstone
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: June 17
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