Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Personally, I'd like to see more of our leaders take a technocratic approach to solving our biggest problems.

The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.

A minister cannot preach the glories of heaven while ignoring social conditions in his own community that cause men an earthly hell. I stressed that the Negro minister had particular freedom and independence to provide strong, firm leadership, and I asked how the Negro would ever gain freedom without his minister's guidance, support and inspiration.

Large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice, equality, and humanity.