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Bill Clinton: Don't you think it's interesting—look around the senior class here, all of you that went through and got your degrees—as…

On the recordJune 11, 1999
Don't you think it's interesting—look around the senior class here, all of you that went through and got your degrees—as America grows more and more diverse, that the biggest problem the world has today is really the oldest problem of human society: We are naturally afraid of people who are different from us.
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Bill Clinton
Democratic · Arkansas

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Commencement Address at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois

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