Patricia Stephens Due Quotes:

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Topics: People, Ordinary, Ordinary People, Extraordinary Things

Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.

Topics: Forever, Stories, Live Forever

Priscilla and I, and nine others, had been charged with 'disturbing the peace,' among other charges, because we tried to order food at Woolworth. If not for segregation, and the fact that we were all Negroes, we would have been served without incident. At our trial on March 17, 1960, Judge John Rudd ruled that our lawyers should 'get off that race question.'

source: - Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

Topics: Order, Race, Judging

History happens one person at a time.

source: - Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine

Topics: Persons