Possible Clues:

• Like global inheritors, it's said
• Unassertive
• Namesake dismisses NASA as spineless
• Like a shrinking violet
• Submissive Frenchman has seven days to head off
• James __, author of The People's Act of Love
• Demure
• Like a personified doormat
• 'Blessed are the ___: for they shall inherit the earth'
• 'The ___ shall inherit the earth'