Logo
Quote by Ella Baker
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depe

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

Other quotes by Ella Baker

Because our children had had the privilege of growing up where theyd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so, you share your lives with people. – Ella Baker

Category:
Community
Author
Ella Baker
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Charisma
category

Things forbidden have a secret charm. – Tacitus

Category:
Charisma

Charm is a product of the unexpected. – Jose Marti

Category:
Charisma

Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change. – Peter Drucker

Category:
Charisma

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing. – Marcel Proust

Category:
Charisma

Random Quotes

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Education

Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. – John Conyers

Category:
Health

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. – Northrop Frye

Category:
Culture

I have three goddaughters – Im not sure why they trust me, because I have no experience with children – but I try. – Diane Kruger

Category:
Experience