"I didn't break the rules, but I challenged…" — Ella Baker
"I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules."
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Ella Baker
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15 Quotes by Ella Baker
Ella Baker has 15 quotes on this site.
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
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My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.
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Give light and people will find the way.
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I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately…
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You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried…
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Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit…
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The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and…
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Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the…
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We who believe in freedom cannot rest.
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Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to…
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There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and…
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In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system…
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that…
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form…
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Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people.…
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