# Quote — Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

> We’ve also been laughed at, argued with, booed, and threatened with hellfire—or gunfire. But Jarret’s kind of religion and Jarret himself are getting less and less popular these days. Both, it seems, are bad for business, bad for the U. S. Constitution, and bad for a large percentage of the population. They always have been, but now more and more people are willing to say so in public. The Crusaders have terrorized some people into silence, but they’ve just made others very angry.

- Author: [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md)
- Book: [Parable of the Talents](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents.md)
- Page: 430
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Parable_of_the_Talents_(1998)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents/weve-also-been

## More from this book

> Consider—
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> We are born
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> Not with purpose,
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> But with potential.

p. 1 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents/consider-we-are.md)

> Beware:
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> Ignorance
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> Protects itself
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> Ignorance
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> Promotes suspicion.
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> Suspicion
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> Engenders fear.
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> Fear quails,
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> Irrational and blind,
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> Or fear looms,
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> Defiant and closed.
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> Blind, closed,
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> Suspicious, afraid,
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> Ignorance
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> Protects itself,
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> And protected,
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> Ignorance grows.

p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents/beware-ignorance-protects.md)

> “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.”

p. 395 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/parable-of-the-talents/im-not-a-demagogue.md)