Ella Baker: Making the Struggle Every Day

[0:24]citizens in a country in which we were born. I have had over 40 or 50 years of struggle. Every since a little boy on the streets of Norfolk called me a nigger. I struck him back. And then I had to learn.

[0:47]I had to learn, I had to learn that hitting back with my fist, one individual was not enough. It takes organization. It takes dedication. It takes the willingness to stand by and do what has to be done when it has to be done.

[1:18]A nice gathering like today is not enough. You have to go back and reach out to your neighbors who don't speak to you. And you have to reach out to your friends who think they are making it good. And get them to understand that they as well as you and I, cannot be free in America or anywhere else where there is capitalism and imperialism until