I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I went to what is known as, and was at that time, too, Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. In fact, because of the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
His name was Michael R. Ross. I've never known what the "R" was for. He died, however, before I was 7. But he and… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
![“I didn't have any close relationship with him because, although [William Edward Burghardt] DuBois may not have been as egocentric - I don't know - he certainly was not the easiest person to approach. I think, certainly, those of us who were younger sort of respected that in terms of his preoccupation with deep thoughts. So, I made no effort to establish any relationship with him. However, he was in and out then.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/926/ella-baker-10989_approach_i-didn-t-have-any-close-relationship-wit_697287.jpg)
![“My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New York City regarding the reaction to this 1954 Supreme Court [Brown v Board of Education] decision.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e2b/ella-baker-10989_association_my-association-with-the-southern-christi_1054645.jpg)
![“I don't know, except that the only simple answer, I think, is that SCLC [Southern Christian Leadership Conference] had never really developed an organizing technique. I've always characterized the difference in saying that they went in for mobilization. And, to be honest, in terms of the historical facts, their mobilization usually was predicated upon some effort at organizing by someone else. And, at this stage, it was largely SNCC.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fbb/ella-baker-10989_answers_i-don-t-know-except-that-the-only-simple_1944591.jpg)
![“After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1e3/ella-baker-10989_bigs_after-the-57-initial-meeting-i-was-up-th_183532.jpg)
![“[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.” quote by Ella Baker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/900/ella-baker-10989_lobbyists_walter-white-was-also-one-of-the-best-lo_712092.jpg)