"Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work."
-Angela Davis
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"I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.“
-Angela Davis
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"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."
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"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women."
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"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
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"Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement."
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"When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy."
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"The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Leadership must be established from the top down."
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"Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests."
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"Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on."
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"Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example."
-Jeff Landry
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