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deutsey

(20,166 posts) Mon Mar 9, 2015, 09:50 PM Mar 2015

Civil Rights Pioneer Diane Nash: I Refused to March with George Bush During Selma Anniversary

After the event, there was a—like a march, and photographers. And I was all set to march with them. They had—they placed us—they had me in the front line. And then George Bush came out and got in the march. And I left. I decided I wasn’t marching anywhere with George Bush. The Selma movement stands for nonviolence and peace and democracy and fairness and voting rights, and George Bush stands for just the opposite. He stands for violence and war and stolen elections, and, for goodness sake, his administration had people tortured. I think this occasion was not appropriate for him to be here. I think for him to appear to be leading people involved in the nonviolent movement in this country, for photographs of that to go across the world would make it look as though we have sold out.

http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/9/civil_rights_pioneer_diane_nash_i

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Civil Rights Pioneer Diane Nash: I Refused to March with George Bush During Selma Anniversary (Original Post) deutsey Mar 2015 OP

She's my hero. DeSwiss Mar 2015 #1

I have to say, her explanation for why she didn't march deutsey Mar 2015 #4

''It is just so honest and plain and comes directly from the heart.'' DeSwiss Mar 2015 #6

The BFEE is the very definition of insulting. chervilant Mar 2015 #2

Bravo cantbeserious Mar 2015 #3

K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Mar 2015 #5

I agree. PotatoChip Mar 2015 #8

integrity and conviction personified heaven05 Mar 2015 #7

I'm amazed that Bush showed up. radicalliberal Mar 2015 #9

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

1. She's my hero.

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:01 PM

Mar 2015

- And she is so brave. Growing up down the street from Fisk, she was an inspiration to many of us in that neighborhood. She inspired me to always stand for TRUTH. No matter what the circumstances.

She spoke TRUTH to power while looking it directly in the eyes, and never flinched.....

K&R

deutsey

(20,166 posts)

4. I have to say, her explanation for why she didn't march

Reply to DeSwiss (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 06:06 AM

Mar 2015

stirred me in a way that no one has in quite a while.

So much of even the best of what I hear from leaders I admire today is nicely polished rhetoric. It's not always necessarily bullshit (though too often too much of it is)...it's just that it's all spin and nicely crafted soundbites. All of that may give what they're saying a good rhetorical ring, but it doesn't resonate with the heart. At least not for me.

What Ms Nash said here, to me, was was the opposite of that. It is just so honest and plain and comes directly from the heart.

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)

6. ''It is just so honest and plain and comes directly from the heart.''

Reply to deutsey (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:30 AM

Mar 2015

She hasn't changed in that respect. Not one iota.

chervilant

(8,267 posts)

2. The BFEE is the very definition of insulting.

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:13 PM

Mar 2015

And, we're not shed of them not by a long shot.

cantbeserious

(13,039 posts)

3. Bravo

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Mon Mar 9, 2015, 11:14 PM

Mar 2015

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)

5. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 07:11 AM

Mar 2015

I love her, Diane Nash!

She is wonderful and right on!

PotatoChip

(3,186 posts)

8. I agree.

Reply to Enthusiast (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 09:39 AM

Mar 2015

She is wonderful.

Beautiful on both the inside and out.

heaven05

(18,124 posts)

7. integrity and conviction personified

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 08:48 AM

Mar 2015

a true warrior.

radicalliberal

(907 posts)

9. I'm amazed that Bush showed up.

Reply to deutsey (Original post)

Tue Mar 10, 2015, 01:02 PM

Mar 2015

As President he appointed two of the Supreme Court Justices who eviscerated the Voting Rights Act. So, his appearance is hypocritical, not to mention downright offensive. You'd think he would be too embarrassed to show up. But he apparently has no shame, or perhaps he's clueless. An empty gesture on his part.

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