"I decide on the basis of conscience...." - Quote by Martin Luther King Jr
I decide on the basis of conscience. A genuine leader doesn't reflect consensus, he molds consensus.
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“We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism.”
“I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.”
“I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.”
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“No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case as in any other, and its moments of ecstasy would be ransomed by years of torment and hatred.”
“Leaders will not experience long-term success unless a lot of people want them to.”
“A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.”
More on Conscience
“Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.”
“He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.”
“It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolizethe whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part.”