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People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety.
Henry Louis Gates
Henry Louis Gates
Born: Sep 16, 1950

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Blame, Hate, People, Anxiety, Fear, Somebody, Fears, Leader, Those, Pie, Look, Real, Afraid, Speaks, Shrinking

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