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[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers – and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

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After the ’57 initial meeting – I was up this way working, not as a staff person – there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you’d had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

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I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

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Martin [Luther King] wasn’t, basically, the kind of person – certainly at the stage that I knew him closest – wasn’t the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

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Kings Quotes by Ella Baker

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers – and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

Martin [Luther King] wasn’t, basically, the kind of person – certainly at the stage that I knew him closest – wasn’t the kind of person you could engage in dialogue with, certainly, if the dialogue questioned the almost exclusive rightness of his position.

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