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"This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty."
"A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised."
"Leaders deal in hope."
"Excellent leaders of people lower themselves."
"When Simplicity is broken up, it is made into instruments. Evolved individuals who employ them, are made into leaders. In this way, the Great System is United."
"The best form of leadership is to be conscious of the leadership potential with the followers and to let them unleash this potential in a spontaneous way. When a great leader accomplishes this task with effortless ease, the followers say, "We did it ourselves.""
"The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine words, respect can be won with good deeds; but the Tao is beyond all value, and no one can achieve it. Thus, when a new leader is chosen, don't offer to help him with your wealth or your expertise. Offer instead to teach him about the Tao. Why did the ancient Masters esteem the Tao? Because, being one with the Tao, when you seek, you find; and when you make a mistake, you are forgiven. That is why everybody loves it."
"The good leader carries water for his people."
"The leader's main job is to make themselves obsolete."
"Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force."
"Of the second-rate leaders people speak respectfully saying, "He has done this, he has done that." Of the first-rate leaders, they do not say this. They say, "We have done it all ourselves.""
"No one could become an efficient leader or take the initiative in any great undertaking without belief in himself."
"You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer."
"It is not time to tell the leaders to realize how important education is - they already know it - their own children are in good schools. Now it is time to call them to take action."
"[Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this."
"In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in."
"Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison."
"Uncle Sam is forcing integration only because he's trying to impress the people of - abroad that he's morally qualified to be the leader of the world."
"Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't."
"Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]."
