“Strong people do not need strong leaders.”
Ella Baker's Life http://www.ellabakerschool.net/resources/about-ella-baker/ella-bakers-life from the Ella Baker School, accessed 24 February 2015
Ella Josephine Baker foi uma ativista dos direitos civis e humanos dos afro-americanos. Atuante por mais de cinco décadas, ela trabalhou ao lado de alguns dos mais famosos líderes dos direitos civis do século 20, como W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph e Martin Luther King Jr., além de orientar muitos ativistas emergentes, como Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Rosa Parks e Bob Moses.
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“Strong people do not need strong leaders.”
Ella Baker's Life http://www.ellabakerschool.net/resources/about-ella-baker/ella-bakers-life from the Ella Baker School, accessed 24 February 2015
“The development of the individual to his highest potential for the benefit of the group.”
The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: documents, speeches and firsthand accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954–1990, ed. Clayborne Carson et al. (Penguin Books, 1991), p. 121.
"The Women Behind the Men" https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/opinion/22collins.html? by Gail Collins in the The New York Times, September 22, 2007