Civil rights Quote by Ella Baker

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

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

After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a…

— Ella Baker

My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

— Ella Baker

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

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

Strong people don't need strong leaders.

— Ella Baker

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

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

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

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

[Walter White] was also one of the best lobbyist of the period.

— Ella Baker