Quotes About Diane Nash

#1. Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every ... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

John Lewis

#2. I refused to march because George Bush marched.

Diane Nash

#3. I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

Wendy Cope

#4. There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

Diane Nash

#5. 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

#6. Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

Olga Korbut

#7. 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

#8. Educate yourself. Understand what you're dealing with. Then figure out how to fight it. Then figure out how to raise money for that fight. It'll help you cope. It'll help your child.

Boomer Esiason

#9. Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. 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

#11. Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

Diane Nash

#12. 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

#13. I'm not a lady, I'm a witch.

Terry Pratchett

#14. We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.

Dalai Lama

#15. When you don't have a vision or a plan for the future, your mind has no choice but to dwell in the past.

Steve Maraboli

#16. [O]nce demagogy and falsehoods become routine, there isn't much for the political journalist to do except handicap the race and report on the candidate's mood.

George Packer

#17. God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

Ben Carson