““I’m not a demagogue.”
“That’s too bad. That leaves the field to people who are demagogues—to the Jarrets of the world. And there have always been Jarrets. Probably there always will be.””

— Octavia E. Butler, book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 395).

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American science fiction writer 1947–2006

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