They were most often leaderless but Jacques Rene Hebert is often named as having some control over them in the Revolution. In general they supported the Jacobins and Robespierre.
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Sans-culottes means "without culottes." Culottes were a style of pants that aristocrats, nobles, and rich people wore before the revolution in France. The revolution was led by the third estate, aka the peasants and the poor people, because they were being treated poorly and unfairly by everyone else. The sans-culottes were people who were making a point to not wear culottes in order to support the revolution.
The sans-culottes represented the "average" people, while the emigres were the nobles who had fled France during the revolution. They had almost no goals in common.
it symbolizes liberty.
A Constitution.
Without Culottes (shorts).... Because the peasants generally wore long pants instead of breeches.