Command Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United…

— Patricia Hill Collins

“While we recognize the deep roots white supremacy has in the consciousness of most white people, we do not believe that only a handful…

— Love and Rage

“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it is precisely…

— Tipu's Tiger

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

— Hermann Hesse

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

— Noel Tichy

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset as well,…

— Martin Luther King III

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and…

— Henry A. Wallace

It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition,…

— Malcolm X

Power in the hands of particular groups and classes serves like a prism to refract reality through their own perspective.

— Sheila Rowbotham

It is in a way a mystery that, instead of demanding that their governments give primary attention to their own needs and aspirations, most…

— J. William Fulbright

Being formed into a nation takes some doing.

— Desmond Tutu

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

— Wesley Lowery