Part of the legacy of people like Ella Baker and Septima Clark is a faith that ordinary people who learn to believe in themselves are capable of extraordinary acts, or better, of acts that seem extraordinary to us precisely because we have such an impoverished sense of the capacities of ordinary people. If we are surprised by what these people accomplished, our surprise may be a commentary on the angle of vision from which we view them.
Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom
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