"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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Source: Tongue Tied. www.foxnews.com. April 3, 2001.

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Andrew Young is a prominent civil rights leader and diplomat known for his role in the Civil Rights Movement and as a former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.

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