Quotes About Ella Baker

#1. We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?

Cornel West

#2. How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence. - Ella Baker

Gail Collins

#3. [Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership ... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.

Gail Collins

#4. Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mother's sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens.

Ella Baker

#5. Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.

Brian Gordon

#6. Strong people do not need strong leaders.

Ella Baker

#7. It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Ravi Zacharias

#8. Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

Ella Baker

#9. I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.

Elizabeth Banks

#10. Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it's packaged, whispers to you that you're not right. You're not good enough. You're unacceptable and you need to be fixed.

Kim Brittingham

#11. In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been.

Ella Baker

#12. Strong people don't need strong leaders.

Ella Baker

#13. Give light and people will find the way.

Ella Baker

#14. I have always thought that what is needed is the development of people who are interested not in being leaders as much as in developing leadership in others.

Ella Baker

#15. I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

Ella Baker

#16. I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

Ella Baker

#17. I find it weird when [model] agents say, 'You're the only black girl booked for the show. Isn't it great?' Why is it great?

Jourdan Dunn

#18. We who believe in freedom cannot rest.

Ella Baker

#19. Startling as this may sound, the truth is that many children read for a remarkably small percentage of the school day.

Michael J. Schmoker

#20. I don't want to be the next anyone. I'm just me.

Juliet Aubrey

#21. In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed ... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.

Ella Baker

#22. The major job was getting people to understand that they had something within their power that they could use, and it could only be used if they understood what was happening and how group action could counter violence.

Ella Baker

#23. There is also the danger in our culture that because a person is called upon to give public statements and is acclaimed by the establishment, such a person gets to the point of believing that he is the movement.

Ella Baker

#24. One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

Ella Baker

#25. The world is too much with us.

William Wordsworth

#26. At times, I suspect that the concept of maturity is maintained by a conspiracy of niceness.

Julian Barnes

#27. To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo Da Vinci

#28. Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

Ella Baker