"Cause we they leaders, and they the followers And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'"
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"I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."
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"And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm."
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"Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing."
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"Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident - all of those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive."
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"Can you believe that? She says I'm not leader enough for her. Who was she looking for... Hitler?"
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"A leader is the one who speaks last and acts first."
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"Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second."
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"A leader moves ahead but not so fast that the others can't keep up."
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"I have to continue to be a great leader and contribute in any way that I can, and get guys to follow suit. That's how you turn a team around."
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"One quality of leaders and high achievers in every area seems to be a commitment to ongoing personal and professional development."
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"There are leaders and there are followers. Followers follow leaders and leaders follow their heart"
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"Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic."
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"we must never forget that people buy into the leader before they buy into a mission statement."
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"The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love."
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"The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University."
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"Inside any important philanthropy meeting, you witness heads of state meeting with investment managers and corporate leaders. All are searching for answers with their right hand to problems that others in the room have created with their left."
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"Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be."
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"People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader. Messenger. The words of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people."
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"A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top."
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