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Ella Baker: There is also...

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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.

Source: In The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya, by Terri L. Jewell, 1993.
-- 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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