The time is always right to do what is right.

         Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

         Marian Anderson

 

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.  

         Thomas Jefferson

 

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.  

         Noam Chomsky

 

Leaders don't force people to follow—they invite them on a journey.

         Charles S. Lauer

 

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

         John Maxwell