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 …

- 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 around. My mother end…

- Diane Nash

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

- 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 was not an emotio…

- Diane Nash

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 …

- Diane Nash

I refused to march because George Bush marched.

- 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 education would prepare you …

- Diane Nash

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

- Diane Nash