From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LEADERS occurs
8 times
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1.
... leaders are
but trusted servants; they do ...
12&12 p.132,
Tradition Two
Our
leaders are but
trusted
servants; they do not
govern."
2.
... leaders are
but trusted servants; they do ...
BB p.562(564),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Our
leaders are but
trusted
servants; they do not
govern.
3.
... leaders in
A.A. are but trusted and ...
12&12 p.191,
Tradition Nine (Long)
4.
... leaders in
A.A. are but trusted and ...
BB p.565(567),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
5.
... leaders might
serve but never govern; that ...
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
It was
thought that
no alcoholic man or
woman could be
excluded from
our
Society; that our
leaders might
serve but
never govern; that
each group was to be
autonomous and there was to be
no professional class of
therapy.
6.
... leaders of
prominence, nor do we wish ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
Not
many of us can be
leaders
of
prominence,
nor do we
wish to be.
7.
... leaders shall
serve.
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
8.
... leaders were
my heroes.
BB p.2,
Bill's Story
Business and
financial leaders were my
heroes.
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