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When I think of leadership I think of a teacher. They lead by the way they act and speak.

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Leadership is being something important in someone's life by impacting them in a positive way.

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when I think of my mother i think of a strong and confident individual no matter what.

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Leadership to me is believing in yourself enough to do something that most people might not do.

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Lebrun James is always helping someone around him.He is always looking to take care of people.

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I think leadership is always doing the right thing

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i would say leadership is leading someone in the right path with a positive mindset

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Michael Jordan was always encouraging his teammates
Leadership is someone with authority

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When i think of Leadership I think of Dejounte  Murray because most of the wins they have it’s because of him 

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Leadership is when someone does the right thing even if other do not like it

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When I think of leadership I think of Skylar Diggens, she is a good role model, & Pg when she was playing for the Dallas Wings. She always encourages her team.

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Leadership is doing whats right, & setting a example for others.

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When i think of leadership i think of crist because he continued to help the people around him and impacted their lives even though alot of people didn'tlikehim

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To lead or have had an impact in someones life

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When I think of leadership I think of my pops because he’s always been the person any to take up for anybody and he does the right thing no matter who’s watchin

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Leadership to me is doing what’s right when nobody is watching not just when people are

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when I think of leadership I think of my dad because he is always there for me and is always encouraging me to be the best version of myself 

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leadership is encouraging people and pickling them up when they fall

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When I think of leadership I think of Dak because he always leads the Cowboys Through hard times

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Leadership is doing something right at all times even when’s nobody watching

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My mom she encourages me everyday, even when it’s the smallest thing.

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Encouraging people, and doing what’s right.

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i think of kobe as a leader cause of the way he worked 24/7 and through that work he would push his teammates and people around him to be better

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leadership is when someone doing good always when someone isn’t watching and pushing others to be better

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When I think of a leader I think of Lionel Messi because when he isn’t captain of his team, everyone wants to follow him all the time because he’s an example. 

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I think leadership is whenever you can be an example in a good way to others, and when other people want to follow you because they know you’re doing right.

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When i think of leadership i think of my mom

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Leadership is always leading people in the right way even when it seems hard

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When I think of leadership, I think of my sister because she inspires myself and others to be the best they can be.

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Leadership is believing in something other than yourself.

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When i think of leadership i think of Martin Luther King.I think of him because him speaking up about something he felt wasnt right changed the world forever.

I think leadership is the ability to voice whats right and encourage no matter what people say.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.

In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.

In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Selected bibliography
Adams, Russell, Great Negroes Past and Present, pp. 106-107. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co., 1963.

Bennett, Lerone, Jr., What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, 1964.

I Have a Dream: The Story of Martin Luther King in Text and Pictures. New York, Time Life Books, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Measure of a Man. Philadelphia. The Christian Education Press, 1959. Two devotional addresses.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Strength to Love. New York, Harper & Row, 1963. Sixteen sermons and one essay entitled "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence."

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Stride toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York, Harper, 1958.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience. New York, Harper & Row, 1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Harper & Row, 1967.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., Why We Can't Wait. New York, Harper & Row, 1963.

"Man of the Year", Time, 83 (January 3, 1964) 13-16; 25-27.

"Martin Luther King, Jr.", in Current Biography Yearbook 1965, ed. by Charles Moritz, pp. 220-223. New York, H.W. Wilson.

Reddick, Lawrence D., Crusader without Violence: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper, 1959.

This autobiography/biography was written at the time of the award and first published in the book series Les Prix Nobel. It was later edited and republished inNobel Lectures. To cite this document, always state the source as shown above.

* Note from Nobelprize.org: This biography uses the word "Negro". Even though this word today is considered inappropriate, the biography is published in its original version in view of keeping it as a historical document.

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The Nobel Peace Prize 1964 was awarded to Martin Luther King Jr. "for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population"

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When I think of Leadership I think of Mike Tomlin because he always gets the best out of all of his players.

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Leadership is doing the right even when it is not popular.