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
I think, to be honest, sort of emanated from the initial work of somebody else instead of SCLC. If you take Albany;… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I don't think that the leadership of Montgomery was prepared to capitalize, let's put it, on the projection that had come out… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther… — 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
I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have… — 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
One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the… — 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
I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had… — 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