Unlikely Leaders Quotes

But leadership springs up in unlikely places through unlikely people. It turns out you don't have
to have a degree in Leadership Development to effect change in this world. You can grow up
scavenging in the city's garbage dump and still find your voice and have a vision to change
things.
It is easy to lead.....poorly.
-Amy Savage
"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination."
-Unknown
"Nobody rises to low expectations."
-Calvin Lloyd
"Leadership is action, not position."
-Donald H. McGannon
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unlikely Leaders
Angelina Jolie: She grew up without much money, experimenting with drugs and self harm
while battling depression and emotional isolation. However, despite her adolescent years, she has
developed into a very powerful woman. She is famous for her work with refugees after she saw
first hand the squalor refugees live in while filming in Cambodia. She has also worked on a
campaign to end sexual violence in arrays of military action.
Johannes Gutenburg: He is known as the man who invented the first movable-type printing press
in Europe around 1450. This lead to cheaper books and therefore more books. As the number of
books available to the public increased, illiteracy rates declined and education became more
widespread.
Helen Keller: She developed an illness at two years old that struck her deaf and blind. Despite
her disabilities, she went on to be the first person who was both deaf and blind to earn a Bachelor
of Arts degree. Despite the challenges that she faced, she learned how to speak and spent much
of her time giving lectures and speeches. She also learned how to hear using her fingers. She
and co-founder George Kessler founded the Helen Keller International organization in 1915.
This organization researches vision, health, and nutrition. She was an advocate for people with
disabilities as well as a suffragist.

Geoffrey Canada: Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in
the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24-block zone
of New York City -- he called it the Harlem Children's Zone -- and give them education, social,
and medical help starting at birth. The idea was to make success a self-reinforcing phenomenon,
as children and their families saw it all around them and recalibrated their expectations. The
experiment has worked spectacularly. The zone now covers over 100 blocks and serves more
than 12,000 children, with 95% of high school seniors going off to college.