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Diane Nash Quotes

b. 1938

Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement.

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Every individual and every generation has challenges.

For citizens to learn nonviolence and to take action is crucial.

When you change yourself, the world has to fit up against the new you…We changed ourselves into people who could not be segregated, and that presented a new set of options to Southern white racists

You should become involved with the issue that moves you. Because ... the fact that it moves you is no accident. The source or your feeling about the issue comes from the same source that created you and sustained your life.

When we were involved in the nonviolent movement of the 1960s, we did not know if nonviolence would work. ... Fortunately we discovered nonviolence does work.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Diane Nash (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.