People cannot be free until they realize that peace—we can talk about peace—that peace is not the absence of war or struggle, it is the presence of justice. People cannot, pardon me, people cannot be free until there is enough work in this land to give everybody a job.

2019年8月9日 · Ella Baker, “The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle,” address given at Institute of the Black World, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969; Joanne Grant, “Appendix,” in Ella Baker: Freedom Bound (New York: John Wiley, 1998), 227–231.

Life-long human rights activist and movement organizer, Ella Baker, addresses 1974 Puerto Rico solidarity rally about the need for every person to make the struggle for human dignity and freedom...

Baker, Ella: "The Black Woman in the Civil Rights Struggle: A Long View," 1969 Date: 1969 Contributor: Holsaert, Faith Location: United States; Georgia; Atlanta (Ga.) Subject: African American women civil rights workers; Women political activists; Format: speeches (documents) Language: English Digital Collection: Faith Holsaert Papers Source ...

There is a story of a woman in Kentucky who had borne thirteen children and strangled each of them with her own hands rather than have them grow up as slaves. Now this calls for a certain kind of deep commitment and resentment. Commitment to freedom and deep resentment against slavery. I would like to divide my remaining comments into two parts.

“Ella Baker and Models of Social Change.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14, no. 4 (1989): 885-899. I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.

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Ella Baker, “Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally” (21 January 1964) February 16, 2017 / 0 Comments / in 1961-1980 , Civil Rights / by Lori Bedell Speech Text

2019年12月19日 · When I was much younger, I used to make speeches that were much better rounded, and one of them had to do with this subject: that to penetrate the mystery of life and to perfect the mastery of life were the twin goals of great living.

Ella Baker was a master strategist and visionary in the civil rights movement. She was a guiding force for prominent movement leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael, and she fueled the work of several leading organizations in the freedom movement.