"Most people think leaders crop up like Topsy and need special things—a mythmaking aura. Now, with moveon.org and some of the organizations coming up against globalization and racism and drawing different kinds of people, I don't think going celebrity is going to work. Celebrities don't have time or energy—or the know-how, as we saw with Russell Simmons going up to Albany on the Rockefeller drug laws. Their egos carry them so far, and I don't know what kind of reality testing there is with that. There have to be a lot of ordinary people from different places—leadership comes out of that. One of the key things is listening, not just that charismatic leadership where you just get up and talk and say you sympathize and that's it."
| A quote from organizer and protester Gloria Richardson Dandridge in Thulani Davis' Village Voice article "We Need You" (via Prometheus 6)
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