Jesus, understandably wanted to take on the heavy mantle of leadership in a considered manner. (religion-online.org)
So it is my honour and privilege to stand before you today in this great city of Philadelphia to proclaim them again, to join hands as we pick up that mantle of leadership once more, to renew our Special Relationship and to recommit ourselves to the responsibility of leadership in the modern world. (totalpolitics.com)
Today, even after King's birth has been made an occasion for national celebration, this «dream» that race should become an irrelevancy seems naively Utopian — indeed that dream is renounced even by those who no longer claim his mantle of leadership. (firstthings.com)