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In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.
Hamza Yusuf
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Hamza Yusuf
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
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