Diane Nash famous quotes

03-30-2025

I refused to march because George Bush marched.
-- Diane Nash

#March
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.
-- Diane Nash

#People #Leader #Definitions
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.
-- Diane Nash

#Responsibility #Realizing #Taking Responsibility
It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been inflicted, the message would have been sent that all you have to do to stop a nonviolent campaign is inflict massive violence,
-- Diane Nash

#Campaigns #Messages #Violence
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used.
-- Diane Nash

#White #People #Black
Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not an emotional relationship.
-- Diane Nash

#Emotional #Chicago #Stories
You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your education would prepare you for, and I just knew that segregation was wrong, and I knew that I should not be going along with it. That I should resist it.
-- Diane Nash

#Teacher #Jobs #Self
I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came around. My mother ended up going to fundraisers in Chicago that were raising money to send to the students in the South and actually, over years, she went to an elevated train bus station one day at 6:00 a.m. to hand out leaflets protesting the war.
-- Diane Nash

#Mother #War #Thinking

I did Playboy. There was an ad in the paper for playmates. Playboy called me and flew me to Los Angeles, and I was on the March cover of 1992.
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'
I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength
No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.
China is on a march toward rule of law and democracy.
Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we." She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.
Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government...

Diane Nash famous quotes

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