The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could… — 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… — 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… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
From the Cooperative League, I suppose, with the Depression lingering as long as it did, the next step in terms of, as… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
When I went to the Association [ National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] I learned a few things by observation.… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
[Walter White] had keep [people] waiting while you got the impression that he was terribly busy with calls to Washington. I've seen… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which… — 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
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