U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson is pictured in this 1964 photo with a group of civil rights leaders who include the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Clarence Mitchell and Patricia Roberts Harris. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law July 2, 1964. (CNS photo/Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy LBJ Library)
"In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed. This means that we are going to have to learn to think in radical terms. I use the term radical in its original meaning – getting down to and understanding the root cause. It means facing a system that does not lend itself to your needs and devising means by which you change that system."
- Ella Baker, (1903-1986), U.S. civil rights activist; quoted in 1969 according to Ella Baker & The Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
