KING: “You say it’s not a question of leadership in this country it’s a question of followship, a new word you made up.”
KASICH: “Well you need — you need — no, you need great leaders, but you need followers. And if a leader’s not going to take you to a better place, why are you following? And if the leader gets off track, it’s important for you to say no. I mean, if you think about a football team, the coach is the person that kind of sets the direction but when the coach leaves it’s the players in the locker room that provide the leadership. It’s leadership where we all are. And look, people need to realize they matter. I don’t care whether you’re the CEO or the person turning off the lights at night, you can make a difference in the way the world works, and my solution is we find common humanity. Everybody’s fighting with one another. People can’t even have weddings without fights breaking out, OK? So here’s what I think, people need to work in a food bank, feed the kids. Everybody’s for that. We need to fight the scourge of drugs. Everybody’s for that. We need to visit the elderly when the spouse dies. This — these kind of things will pull us together. And forget all these big politicians. Martin Luther King didn’t fix America by starting at the top. The politicians wouldn’t even meet with him. He drove it at the community level, exposed the moral outrage, and we all got together or they all got together, God bless him, and drove change from the bottom up and united the country.”
ROSE: “And soon he was in the Oval Office dealing with Lyndon Johnson civil rights legislation.”