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" Fear is the parent of cruelty. "

James Anthony Froude

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" A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. "

John F. Kennedy

" Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. "

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" Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them. "

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" If I had a motto, it would be, 'Believe in God, fear the church'. "

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" I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it's chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe. "

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" Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know? "

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