Quotes About Sncc

#1. Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

Richard Simmons

#2. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.

Ariel Levy

#3. Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the corner? We set up a Freedom School that was fashioned after the SNCC Freedom Schools in Mississippi and other places.

Junius Williams

#4. Failure is success in abeyance; but only for those who persevere.

Ashok Kallarakkal

#5. Nobody wants to say, "I'm trying to get my feet on the ground" when they're in their twenties. They want you to think they're about to do something dangerous, or exciting, or different. We're not "living at home," we're "crashing until we can afford a pad in Brooklyn.

Alida Nugent

#6. An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Stokely Carmichael

#7. My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

Faith Evans

#8. The law is whatever people determine it to be.

David Ben-Gurion

#9. The reaper lacks the eyes to hold him back;

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

John Steinbeck

#11. As noted in 1964 by Robert P. "Bob" Moses, director of the Mississippi project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC): "It's not contradictory for a farmer to say he's nonviolent and also pledge to shoot a marauder's head off.

Charles E. Cobb

#12. Gravity is the root of lightness;

Lao-Tzu

#13. How hideous, that there should be a pecking order in my grief.

Sonali Deraniyagala

#14. My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

Yaya DaCosta

#15. Good values are easier caught than taught.

Zig Ziglar

#16. I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

Charli XCX

#17. The only position for women in SNCC is prone.

Stokely Carmichael

#18. Is this guy Love or Death? Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.

Rick Riordan

#19. Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,

Julian Bond