I'm through supporting leaders whose status depends on our failure to challenge and criticize them when they deserve criticism. I'm
finished with thin skinned leaders who don't tolerate open discussion
of differences and who cannot or will not build bottom-up
membership-driven democratic organizations. I'm done with
leaders who don't encourage ordinary to get deeper into politics and
economics, and who don't work to empower ordinary people to come up with
their own visions and plans of how to build pieces of the new world.
-- Bruce A. Dixon, "Why I Ain't Getting on the Bus for the MMM This Or Any Other Year" (Black Agenda Report).