Advancement Quote by Ella Baker

I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration…

— Ella Baker

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of…

— Boots Riley

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

— Ella Baker

I think personally, I've always felt that the Association [NAACP] got itself hung-up in what I call its legal successes. Having had so many…

— Ella Baker

When a person travels through a few years with an organization, or with a partnership, or any other kind of working association, he leaves…

— Henry Cloud

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if…

— Ella Baker

In the late 90s I was hired to participate in a 2 year initiative discussing intimacy and depression which was funded by an educational…

— Drew Pinsky

“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely…

— Adolph L. Reed Jr

I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister…

— Ella Baker

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the…

— Julian Bond

“With every Black first, the blame shifted to those Black people who failed to break away. Du Bois’s The Crisis tried to assign blame…

— Ibram X. Kendi