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… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders. — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility. — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence had been… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
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… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people… — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
