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Top 10 Ella Baker Quotes (2025 Update)

Ella Baker Quote: “Give light and people will find the way.”
Ella Baker Quote: “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 Quote: “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.”
Ella Baker Quote: “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 Quote: “I didn’t break the rules, but I challenged the rules.”
Ella Baker Quote: “My theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.”
Ella Baker Quote: “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 Quote: “You didn’t see me on television, you didn’t see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don’t need strong leaders.”
Ella Baker Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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.”
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