[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.
Gail CollinsTags: feminism civil-rights leadership ella-baker grassroots-organizing naacp
How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker
Gail CollinsTags: life existence civil-rights volunteer women-s-rights ella-baker naacp
It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.
AberjhaniTags: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr syrian-civil-war marvelousmonday-quotes i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
AberjhaniTags: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr black-history-month syrian-civil-war i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
AberjhaniTags: civil-rights human-rights martin-luther-king-jr syrian-civil-war marvelousmonday-quotes i-have-a-dream-speech mlkdream50 dreamday let-freedom-ring
As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.
Anthony LiccioneTags: friends family peace war fight safety military civil-rights watch support country shelter sword guard serve protect secure shield loyality beat-off care-for keep-safe stand-your-ground
A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.
Ned SubletteTags: civil-rights community new-orleans resistance second-line
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: empathy oppression civil-rights privilege social-justice racism nonviolence tension conflict-resolution oppressors nonviolent-conflict-resolution white-privilege confronting-privilege
I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.
Sue EakinTags: civil-rights louisiana twelve-years-a-slave
Already the people murmur that I am your enemy
because they say that in verse I give the world your me.
They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.
Who rises in my verses is not your voice. It is my voice
because you are the dressing and the essence is me;
and the most profound abyss is spread between us.
You are the cold doll of social lies,
and me, the virile starburst of the human truth.
You, honey of courtesan hypocrisies; not me;
in all my poems I undress my heart.
You are like your world, selfish; not me
who gambles everything betting on what I am.
You are only the ponderous lady very lady;
not me; I am life, strength, woman.
You belong to your husband, your master; not me;
I belong to nobody, or all, because to all, to all
I give myself in my clean feeling and in my thought.
You curl your hair and paint yourself; not me;
the wind curls my hair, the sun paints me.
You are a housewife, resigned, submissive,
tied to the prejudices of men; not me;
unbridled, I am a runaway Rocinante
snorting horizons of God's justice.
You in yourself have no say; everyone governs you;
your husband, your parents, your family,
the priest, the dressmaker, the theatre, the dance hall,
the auto, the fine furnishings, the feast, champagne,
heaven and hell, and the social, "what will they say."
Not in me, in me only my heart governs,
only my thought; who governs in me is me.
You, flower of aristocracy; and me, flower of the people.
You in you have everything and you owe it to everyone,
while me, my nothing I owe to nobody.
You nailed to the static ancestral dividend,
and me, a one in the numerical social divider,
we are the duel to death who fatally approaches.
When the multitudes run rioting
leaving behind ashes of burned injustices,
and with the torch of the seven virtues,
the multitudes run after the seven sins,
against you and against everything unjust and inhuman,
I will be in their midst with the torch in my hand.
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