I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the lack of public school facilities, I began there. I began boarding school at the high school level; in fact, a year below the high school level.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see that there were certain social forces over which the individual had very little control.