Diane Nash

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

— Diane Nash

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

— Diane Nash

I don't think my grandmother would ever be convinced, but my family was convinced that I was convinced, and actually, they came…

— Diane Nash

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

— Diane Nash

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there…

— Diane Nash

It was clear to me that if we allowed the Freedom Ride to stop at that point, just after so much violence…

— Diane Nash

You have to be a whole, dignified, self-respecting person in order to be an English teacher or whatever kind of job your…

— Diane Nash

Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to…

— Diane Nash