Introduction

I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best coloured man

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.