“I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.” ReasonTogetherPresidentAttitudeLeaderUnderstoodDistanceCampaignsPresidentialNo ReasonPresident ObamaSolidarityPresidential Campaign Author:Francois Hollande
“It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.” SelfBlackLeaderSelf LoveUnderstoodAccidentsSelf RespectAffirmationSelf Affirmation Author:Cornel West
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.” StatesFeelingsUnitedRaceLeaderUnited StatesEconomicCenturyMovementRacismUnderstoodPrejudiceSlaveryGuiltCompetitionFeministDiscriminationMotiveInsecuritySexismParallelsSimilarityNineteenth CenturyFeminist MovementAnti SlaveryGuilt FeelingsEconomic Competition Author:Ashley Montagu
“All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.” GrowthNumbersResponsibilityLeaderDisciplineUnderstoodPersonal GrowthGreat LeaderCultivating Author:John C. Maxwell
“We have to create the ability to police our own communities instead of leaving it in the hands of a system that has never understood us, tried to marginalize and politically assassinate all of our leaders whenever they came to challenge the status quo.” HandsCommunityChallengesAbilityLeaderUnderstoodPoliceLeavingStatus Quo Author:Immortal Technique
“Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people lose the meaning of their lives, their social organisation disintegrates, and they themselves morally decay. We are now in the same condition. But we have never really understood what we have lost, for our spiritual leaders unfortunately were more interested in protecting their institutions than in understanding the mystery that symbols present.” PeopleHappensSpiritualValuesLostSocialUnderstandingLosesLeaderMysteryModernConditionsUnderstoodInstitutionsImpactSymbolsExposedDecayPrimitiveCivilisationOrganisationAnthropologistsSpiritual LeaderSpiritual Values Author:Carl Jung