“Tall leaders, sun-crowned, who live above the fog in public duty and in private thinking.”
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Source: A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957)
About this quote
In A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957), King uses a focused ethical claim to examine leadership, with attention to leaders, crowned, above. The practical center is the relationship between education and private and thinking, giving readers a specific lens for judgment and action.
When to use it
- A community organizer builds a meeting around leaders before participants choose one measurable action related to leadership.
- A teacher pairs the passage from A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations (1957) with a primary-source exercise about education and public responsibility.
- A team leader uses the tension between crowned and thinking to discuss conduct under pressure.