Quotes About Leadership

As Knox had proclaimed, Elizabeth ruled from the head and Mary from the heart

By the end of April 1566, Mary was back in control.

playing a leading role in the Protestant revolution

Francis was succeeded by his brother, Charles IX, who was only ten years old.

Cecil watched and waited. Unlike Mary, he was entirely prepared for what was about to happen in her country.

On August 22, Moray was proclaimed regent.

He had led the lords who deposed Mary's mother eight years before

Mary was an anointed queen, accountable to God alone.

less from Henry VIII's aggression than from James V's decision to launch a counterattack

greater in that he had been ensconced safely at a distance and was not leading his troops.

Within a week, six thousand men rallied to her cause.

But she was still a crowned queen in her own right.

She had great success in raising a royal army.

She rode out of Edinburgh at the head of between eight and ten thousand men

Mary might return home as an independent queen.

She allied with the pro-French Beaton and Lennox, whose joint forces mustered at Linlithgow on July 24.

and to bolster the legitimacy of her reign in her own country.

There is little discipline in government, in school, in the home, or in most individuals. The rebellion against authority is also alive in the apostate church that has thrown discipline overboard and no longer mentions the necessity of submitting to spiritual and civil leadership. The alternative to discipline is mayhem where the nation has become an asylum, and the inmates are in charge.

Les autres [leaders de l'époque] suppliaient qu'on nous laisse entrer dans la maison de l'oppresseur, Malcolm [Malcolm X], lui, nous disait de construire notre propre maison

Lebendige Bewegungen gehen nicht von Komitees aus und große Ideen werden nicht durch einen Briefwechsel ausgearbeitet, selbst wenn das Porto noch so günstig ist.

The rulers of the world were Monks, when they could not be Martyrs.

Los movimientos vivos no nacen de comisiones, ni las grandes ideas operan por correo

Local white leadership was discredited in the eyes of black people, too, by their insistence on asking me, when we met to discuss the local events, usually with black people, if I had discovered who was the traveling black agitator who had come in and stirred up their "good black people." And had I discovered if there were any communists behind the disruptions?

Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South. But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.