Diane Nash
"…bright, focused, utterly fearless, with an unerring instinct for the correct tactical move at each increment of the crisis; as a leader, her instincts had been flawless, and she was the kind of person who pushed those around her to be at their best—that, or be gone from the movement." –about Diane Nash by David Halberstam,
"This will be a black baby born in Mississippi, and thus where ever he is born he will be in prison ... If I go to jail now it may help hasten that day when my child and all children will be free."
"Freedom is poeple realizing they are their own leader."
"We will not stop, there is only one outcome" (referring to the freedom rides she was participating in)
"We feel that if we pay these fines we would be contributing to and supporting the injustice and immoral practices that have been performed in the arrest and conviction of the "defendants." (when sentenced to a $50 fine for sitting at a 'whites only' lunch counter.)
"Do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their race or colour?"
"I have a lot of respect for the way he (the mayor of Nashville) responded. He didn't have to respond the way he did. He said that he felt it was wrong for citizens of Nashville to be discriminated against at the lunch counters solely on the basis of the color of their skin. That was the turning point... That day was very important. (after the desegregation of Nashville lunch counters."
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"This will be a black baby born in Mississippi, and thus where ever he is born he will be in prison ... If I go to jail now it may help hasten that day when my child and all children will be free."
"Freedom is poeple realizing they are their own leader."
"We will not stop, there is only one outcome" (referring to the freedom rides she was participating in)
"We feel that if we pay these fines we would be contributing to and supporting the injustice and immoral practices that have been performed in the arrest and conviction of the "defendants." (when sentenced to a $50 fine for sitting at a 'whites only' lunch counter.)
"Do you feel it is wrong to discriminate against a person solely on the basis of their race or colour?"
"I have a lot of respect for the way he (the mayor of Nashville) responded. He didn't have to respond the way he did. He said that he felt it was wrong for citizens of Nashville to be discriminated against at the lunch counters solely on the basis of the color of their skin. That was the turning point... That day was very important. (after the desegregation of Nashville lunch counters."
To learn more about Diane Nash, click here