Patricia Stephens Due quotes
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“Ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”
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“Stories live forever. Storytellers don't.”
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“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.'”
-- Patricia Stephens DueSource : Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine
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“History happens one person at a time.”
-- Patricia Stephens DueSource : Tananarive Due, Patricia Stephens Due (2003). “Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights”, One World/Ballantine
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