People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrin…

Henry Louis Gates
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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. ✨ Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Tavis Smiley show, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.
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