5 Quotes by Diane Nash

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

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

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

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.

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.