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Ella Baker: Because [our children]...

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Because [our children] had had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people.

Source: In Moving the Mountain, by Ellen Cantarow, 1980.
-- Ella Baker, (Dec 13 1903-1986), US civil rights activist; She was a founding member of Young Negroes Cooperative League, Student Non-violent Coordinating Com (SNCC), and the So. Christian Leadership Confer.


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