Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community

Only when these virtues are practiced can overall social integrity ensue. Besides a finely honed sense of civility, among the other critical virtues that Fluker commends to the leader are imagination, compassion, empathy, and discernment Two exemplars of the kind of leadership that Fluker has in mind are Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom were nurtured in the black church tradition.