Ella Baker: Making the Struggle Every Day
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 every day.
TRANSCRIPT:
Friends, brothers, and sisters in the struggle for human dignity and freedom. I am here to represent the struggle that has gone on for three-hundred or more years -- a struggle to be recognized as citizens in a country in which we were born. I have had about forty or fifty years of struggle, ever since a little boy on the streets of Norfolk called me a nigger. I struck him back. And then I had to learn that hitting back with my fists 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. 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 we can get people to recognize that they themselves have to make the struggle and have to make the fight for freedom every day in the year, every year until they win it.
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I hear it almost everyday. It makes me cry every time😢 No one is free till we all are free. ✊ 🇵🇰❤🇵🇸
In other words, "We who believe in freedom cannot rest." - Ella Baker
Ms. Baker looked like she was ready to jump out her shoes every time the audience clapped lol. She was there to deliver a message and a call to action, not to receive claps and applause (which she absolutely deserved.) I appreciate all the wisdom she spoke and all the lessons she modeled.
Everytime I see her it sends chills from her powerful voice and poise. Thank you Mrs baker and I'm proud to be of your race
GirlTrek brought me here.🙌🏾 Another great speech from one of our sisters who paved the way.❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I've learned so much about myself and women in history & I've invited my friends to take this journey with me.
@tnichele1048
4 жыл бұрын
Me too...check out the other speech, it serves as a reminder that we are truly repeating history literally today!
@jacquleenE607
4 жыл бұрын
Same!
@kimberlytownsend8293
4 жыл бұрын
Me too! #DaughtersOf
@CassandraHerbert
4 жыл бұрын
Me too. Love listening and learning.
@mjn5048
4 жыл бұрын
Same!
This woman was so powerful and the fact that she's not well known is a true crime.
Great speech! Thanks GirlTrek for guiding many through these black history moments that show us the strength and peace displayed during the journey.
Elder, Mother, Ancestor, Ella Baker Love you.. Beautiful woman through and through...
Love her glad I have her for black history month 😍❤️
@Danderwhitepaw
3 жыл бұрын
She sounded good till she said we can't be free in america where there's capitalism, found it at 1:40
@alecotkoala5203
3 жыл бұрын
@@Danderwhitepaw ugh....she said if we are African American we coud not be free. Duh.
She was amazing.
Every word of this 🙌🏾📣🙌🏾📣🙌🏾📣 Chills listening to her! 🙌🏾
Ms Ella thank you for giving us a blue print to follow today!
There's so much we aren't taught! As a teacher myself, I promise to do better and amplify her name.
Yay shes a fire ball. Love it
Beautiful Blessings Amen
Great woman and mouth piece for our God. Happy I've gotten the opportunity to see and hear her speak!! Amen
Great woman, she gave pearls of wisdom. Thank you Girl Trek.
Amen Amen. We must RISE.
GirlTrek! Thank you!
Thank you!
I love her
This is fresh as day
So true.
YES!!
Amen, Mother Ella!
Thanks GirlsTrek !!!
this is great
Good morning! We are currently producing a series of short videos on Peace History and were wondering if it was possible to use a short excerpt from this video (properly attributed, of course). Please let us know if this is possible!
Girltrek 6/2020
My muse!!
Girltrek brought me here
IT ISN'T WHAT I THOUGHT.
Muslims around the globe, ALL 2Billion of them, stand in solidarity with our black brothers and sisters. We feel your pain and suffering. 🇵🇰❤🇵🇸
@cmebans35
12 күн бұрын
Jesus loves you May you get to know Him as Lord and Savior
@jesuispalestinien9108
11 күн бұрын
@@cmebans35 Ofcourse Jesus pbuh) loves Muslims. We believe in him, We did NOT murder him, We demonstrate our utmost respect for him by adding PEACE BE UPON HIM (pbuh) at the end of his good name, We are NOT blasphemous towards him and believe in his miracles We DO NOT make his idols Bow Pray or Ask forgiveness infront of them cos he never said that. We believe that he was a prophet, he himself NEVER said he was GOD or SAVIOUR. He said GOD THROUGH ME. He is NOT a saviour ultimately. He is NOT a God therefore. we are the ONLY religion which follow the above. Neither Christians NOR Judaism follows him with respect. May Allah forgive you for making partners with him 🤲
Kendra Hicks brought me here.
One of the Invisibles
Purrrrr. #BlackAutonomy #BlackAnarchism #Anarkata
Communism ❤️
I supported her speech till she said we can't be free with capitalism, she is a socialist, and the fact that joe biden supported her, omg socialism is to stay out of america
@alecotkoala5203
3 жыл бұрын
Ugh use your head is we were African Americans we could not be free
@Grimmbros1214
2 жыл бұрын
what is the definition of socialism?
@Danderwhitepaw
2 жыл бұрын
@@Grimmbros1214 It's basically the government is in power, they control all businesses and everything cost soo much money to where you can't afford anything, just look at Venezuela
@Grimmbros1214
2 жыл бұрын
@@Danderwhitepaw Venezuela's economy has less state owned industry than Norway's. Venezuela is failing because it's a corrupt authoritarian dictatorship under US embargo whose economy was propped up by oil and collapsed when oil costs dropped. Socialism is not "when the government owns all the businesses and makes everything cost more money" socialism is a society in which workers are in control of the economy rather than owners, which can take many forms. Most socialists don't really agree with states from the past and present who called themselves socialist, like the Soviet Union or the PRC, or North Korea. Our government is (supposedly) democratic, where everyone has an equal (in theory) say of what happens, because the government's actions affect everyone. Socialism is an ideology that extends that idea to the economy. The economy is a thing that has an impact on everyone in society, so everyone in society should be able to have a say in what goes on.
@kathlynbelizaire9560
2 жыл бұрын
If you support capitalism, you support slavery and the modern day exploitation of bodies. Socialism is making sure everyone's needs are being met.