I have been contacting Black women who are filmmakers about doing a documentary on Diane Nash for the past few years and never received a response. Financing is probably an issue. I am the same age as Ms. Nash and I found her courage unbelievable. She is one of the most underrated Black women of the Civil Rights era, along with Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and a few others.
Hi KUNHARDT THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR RUclips CHANNEL VERY VERY VERY VERY ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM DIANE NASH ON MARTIN LUTHER KING THOSE GUYS WERE VERY STRONG TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH DOES DAYS I LOVE THIS TOPICS ON THIS I REALLY APPRECIATE DOES GUYS BACK THEN I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT STRONG THANKS AGAIN KUNHARDT FOR SHARING YOUR RUclips KEEP MAKING DOES GREAT RUclipsS 🙏🙏🙏
Some transcriptions of my favorite parts, with titles (my own): What Segregation meant “Blacks could not use public libraries…It was possible for blacks to buy food at a downtown restaurant. But you couldn’t sit down and eat. You had to buy it on a carry out basis. So if you went to downtown Nashville during the lunch hour, the blacks who were working in the downtown area would be sitting along the curbs, along the alleys, eating their lunch that they had either brought from home or purchased on a takeout basis from a local restaurant. When I obeyed segregation rules, I felt awful. I felt like I was agreeing that I was too inferior to use the accommodations that the general public used. So my commitment was to eliminate segregation. The non-violent workshops were the only people I could find doing something to end segregation. So we had the success of the first couple of years: the lunch counters and restaurants and freedom rides. And then the violent poetry was surfacing. And people who didn’t believe in non-violence. And at a certain point I thought: well, of course violence is more powerful than non-violence. And I decided I wouldn’t be non-violent. Nonviolence Well, about a year passed. The only thing that I had done was read a lot of poetry, have a lot of conversation about how blood had to flow in the street. And, I had not been to the rifle range. I had not learned how to make a bomb, let alone use one. I had come to the conclusion that you had to be kind of stupid to do illegal things with people you did not know well. Therefore it was not possible to build a mass-based movement using violence. And when I looked back upon that year, I decided that I personally was more powerful using non-violence. So I came full circle and moved from using it as a tactic to using it as a way of life. Because it makes sense in so many ways. Usually when people carry out violent movements, they’re really trying to achieve something good; achieve a better world. And you don’t do that by harming people. If you kill somebodies friend or brother or child or mother or father, it’s not going to create good feelings and brother and sisterhood and harmony, like people would prefer. Very often, when there is violence, the press will cover the violence and ignore the issue. They will cover the violence in great detail… on this corner this violence was happening, and meanwhile across the street in grant park-they’ll describe some violence there. And then they’ll go on -the whole article will be violence and the issues will absolutely be ignored. So I took note of a number of things like that and decided that non-violence is a more powerful way of making change. Because often with violence you attack individuals and you leave the system or the real problem untouched. With the amount and the different kinds of violence that have been used over the centuries, if violence improved things and made a better world, we’d be in utopia by now. So clearly it doesn’t bring a better world.” On MLK day “I am going to quote my ex-husband on this question of how we should remember Martin Luther King. You know the Wright brothers were probably pretty good guys. Wouldn’t it be a shame if we had a holiday once a year where we praised the Wright brothers and talked about how great they were, instead of developing their contribution, instead of developing aviation. With Martin Luther King, we have the holiday and talk about how wonderful he was, but we really should develop his work, which was non-violent social change. We should study non-violence and apply it, and develop it.” On caring for future generations I really think we no longer have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I think now we have a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. I’m troubled that we no longer have a free press. We have a corporate press, corporate media […] I think we’re in a serious place when it comes to the country that your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will inherit. And it’s up to us to determine what that country will be like. When citizens see their roof leaking in their living unit. If they’re living in an apartment, they call the maintenance crew. If they live in their own home, they call a plumber. Because they know that if that leak is neglected, that living unit will become uninhabitable. It’s remarkable that people don’t understand that that principle is also true of a society; of a country, of a state, of a city and of a community. Societies don’t collapse in a single day, or a single year. They collapse over a period of time with millions and millions of flaws. And the flaws are when citizens see something wrong. If you work for a company and they’re dumping toxic waste in a nearby stream or lake, and you do and say nothing, that’s like a leak in the ceiling. That’s contributing to a fall in this country. If you work in a court and you know that a judge is taking bribes, that’s contributing to the downfall of our justice system. And on and on. And right now all of our systems are imploding. Our education system. Certainly in large cities. Our so called justice system. Which is an injustice system. Where people are incarcerated in order for their to be the new slavery; the new Jim Crow. The education system. The economic system, which has incredible number of people unemployed. The citizens of this country don’t understand that it’s our responsibility, everybody’s responsibility. There are 300 million of us. When jobs were moved over seas for the benefit of a small minority of people, all of us did nothing, said nothing, probably didn’t think about it. But that was our responsibility to think about it. How many American citizens sit in a quiet corner sometime and say, how do I want the education system in this country or in this state or in this city to be. Now if you don’t do that: why would you be surprised when someone else builds the systems the way they want them, to your detriment. […] Why aren’t you deciding how you want the economic system to work and then why aren’t you going door to door, in your block and in your neighborhood, and meeting people and making decisions about how you want things to look. And how you are going to get where you collectively want to be. You have the same equipment that the people who are making the decisions have: one head, two eyes, one brain, two hands, same internal organs. The only thing that is different is that you don’t see yourself as a ruler of this country. In a democracy, or even in a republic, the citizens are the rulers of this country. We don’t need to worry about who’s president or who’s in Congress and what they’re doing wrong. The biggest neglect is the citizens haven’t been doing our job and if we start doing our job, we won’t have to worry about the elected officials. It is a huge mistake to expect elected officials to do what needs to be done in the interest of this country. Suppose them we had waited for elected officials to de-segregate lunch counters and restaurants. Or desegregate interstate bus travel. Or get the right to vote in the south. 50 some odd years later, I’m convinced we’d still be waiting. And I promise you, if citizens don’t take the interests of this country into our own hands, learn how to use non-violence, and make the necessary social changes, 50 years from now, those changes will not be made. And God help our children and grandchildren if our citizens don’t step up to the plate. And I don’t mean a few. Or I don’t mean you should say, somebody ought to. Or they ought to. I mean you: the person you see in the mirror. That is your responsibility. So just like your living unit can became uninhabitable, your city, your state, your country will become more and more uninhabitable. Right now, black men and boys can be shot in the back. No one held accountable. Particularly shot by law enforcement. The cities where this happens have become uninhabitable for them. On charismatic leadership There are lessons that can be learned from the movement of the sixties. One of them is that charismatic leadership, whether under Marcus Garvey, Elijah Mohammed, Malcom X, Martin King, Jesse Jackson, whomever: has not freed us and never will. I think that the freedom is adult men and women understanding that they are their own leaders. It is rather dangerous to rely on charismatic leadership. The model of that one string person and many weak people, will sometimes produce a benevolent leader, like a Martin Luther King, but it also will produce a Hitler type. There are lots of reasons why charismatic leadership is not the best way to go. Another is that it makes it really easy for the power structure-the opposition-to manipulate a moment through bribery, threats, and assassination. Movements really need to be issue led, rather than personality lead. All of the accolades and excessive praise that people were giving Martin King, they thought they were doing something positive, but actually they were setting him up for assassination. And I don’t think we should make that mistake again. Like someone said, if I lead you into the promise land, somebody else can lead you back out again. I think there is wisdom in that. I think we have to really change the attitude of American citizens into understanding that social change is the job of each of us. That’s the only way that I think we will emerge from this frightening period of American history, with citizens having a measure of rights.
Wow Diane Is right, 50 years from now, if Things doesn’t changes, this country will be destroyed and America will not be fit for any of us to live in...
Non-Violence movement’s for change ,,, wow,, I was born in 1949, I am now 71, all I have ever seen or heard about is nothing but violence, I suffer with bad heart, COPD, use oxygen daily, sometimes can’t get out of bed,,, my bad health is the results of vicious stress and violence and it came from the White House all the way down to the States that I live in, and all of my vicious treatment comes from WHITE FOLKS, mostly LAW ENFORCEMENT coming in and out of my house,, And Them Shining that government satellites CAMERAS through my Televisions all through my house...So Now I keep my TV’s off, but these idiots stay on my phone, Facebook and Twitter and RUclips ,, sometimes they shine that satellite camera through my Phone and it lights up my bedroom,,, Thank you for sharing these interviews about MLK,
Diane Nash as a results of those 4 little black girls being murdered in Birmingham, is when Diane Nash and her husband drafted a bill to be signed for us to have a right to vote..
Thankyou Madaam Nash. You are a true gem in our history.
I hope someone writes her autobiography or does a biopic! Truly a humble legend that we should not forget
I have been contacting Black women who are filmmakers about doing a documentary on Diane Nash for the past few years and never received a response. Financing is probably an issue. I am the same age as Ms. Nash and I found her courage unbelievable. She is one of the most underrated Black women of the Civil Rights era, along with Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer and a few others.
She changed my life and the lives of my children's. God bless Diane Nash, an American shero.
Amen ❤
Thank U 4 Your Courage + Bravery 👏😍🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏😘🌹.
Marvelous women write a biography of this women please or a pictorial history
Hi KUNHARDT THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR RUclips CHANNEL VERY VERY VERY VERY ENCOURAGING WORDS FROM DIANE NASH ON MARTIN LUTHER KING THOSE GUYS WERE VERY STRONG TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH DOES DAYS I LOVE THIS TOPICS ON THIS I REALLY APPRECIATE DOES GUYS BACK THEN I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT STRONG THANKS AGAIN KUNHARDT FOR SHARING YOUR RUclips KEEP MAKING DOES GREAT RUclipsS 🙏🙏🙏
Some transcriptions of my favorite parts, with titles (my own):
What Segregation meant
“Blacks could not use public libraries…It was possible for blacks to buy food at a downtown restaurant. But you couldn’t sit down and eat. You had to buy it on a carry out basis. So if you went to downtown Nashville during the lunch hour, the blacks who were working in the downtown area would be sitting along the curbs, along the alleys, eating their lunch that they had either brought from home or purchased on a takeout basis from a local restaurant. When I obeyed segregation rules, I felt awful. I felt like I was agreeing that I was too inferior to use the accommodations that the general public used. So my commitment was to eliminate segregation.
The non-violent workshops were the only people I could find doing something to end segregation. So we had the success of the first couple of years: the lunch counters and restaurants and freedom rides. And then the violent poetry was surfacing. And people who didn’t believe in non-violence. And at a certain point I thought: well, of course violence is more powerful than non-violence. And I decided I wouldn’t be non-violent.
Nonviolence
Well, about a year passed. The only thing that I had done was read a lot of poetry, have a lot of conversation about how blood had to flow in the street. And, I had not been to the rifle range. I had not learned how to make a bomb, let alone use one. I had come to the conclusion that you had to be kind of stupid to do illegal things with people you did not know well. Therefore it was not possible to build a mass-based movement using violence. And when I looked back upon that year, I decided that I personally was more powerful using non-violence.
So I came full circle and moved from using it as a tactic to using it as a way of life. Because it makes sense in so many ways. Usually when people carry out violent movements, they’re really trying to achieve something good; achieve a better world. And you don’t do that by harming people. If you kill somebodies friend or brother or child or mother or father, it’s not going to create good feelings and brother and sisterhood and harmony, like people would prefer.
Very often, when there is violence, the press will cover the violence and ignore the issue. They will cover the violence in great detail… on this corner this violence was happening, and meanwhile across the street in grant park-they’ll describe some violence there. And then they’ll go on -the whole article will be violence and the issues will absolutely be ignored.
So I took note of a number of things like that and decided that non-violence is a more powerful way of making change. Because often with violence you attack individuals and you leave the system or the real problem untouched.
With the amount and the different kinds of violence that have been used over the centuries, if violence improved things and made a better world, we’d be in utopia by now. So clearly it doesn’t bring a better world.”
On MLK day
“I am going to quote my ex-husband on this question of how we should remember Martin Luther King. You know the Wright brothers were probably pretty good guys. Wouldn’t it be a shame if we had a holiday once a year where we praised the Wright brothers and talked about how great they were, instead of developing their contribution, instead of developing aviation.
With Martin Luther King, we have the holiday and talk about how wonderful he was, but we really should develop his work, which was non-violent social change. We should study non-violence and apply it, and develop it.”
On caring for future generations
I really think we no longer have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. I think now we have a government of the corporations, by the corporations, and for the corporations. I’m troubled that we no longer have a free press. We have a corporate press, corporate media […] I think we’re in a serious place when it comes to the country that your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will inherit. And it’s up to us to determine what that country will be like.
When citizens see their roof leaking in their living unit. If they’re living in an apartment, they call the maintenance crew. If they live in their own home, they call a plumber. Because they know that if that leak is neglected, that living unit will become uninhabitable. It’s remarkable that people don’t understand that that principle is also true of a society; of a country, of a state, of a city and of a community.
Societies don’t collapse in a single day, or a single year. They collapse over a period of time with millions and millions of flaws. And the flaws are when citizens see something wrong. If you work for a company and they’re dumping toxic waste in a nearby stream or lake, and you do and say nothing, that’s like a leak in the ceiling. That’s contributing to a fall in this country. If you work in a court and you know that a judge is taking bribes, that’s contributing to the downfall of our justice system. And on and on.
And right now all of our systems are imploding. Our education system. Certainly in large cities. Our so called justice system. Which is an injustice system. Where people are incarcerated in order for their to be the new slavery; the new Jim Crow. The education system. The economic system, which has incredible number of people unemployed. The citizens of this country don’t understand that it’s our responsibility, everybody’s responsibility. There are 300 million of us. When jobs were moved over seas for the benefit of a small minority of people, all of us did nothing, said nothing, probably didn’t think about it. But that was our responsibility to think about it.
How many American citizens sit in a quiet corner sometime and say, how do I want the education system in this country or in this state or in this city to be. Now if you don’t do that: why would you be surprised when someone else builds the systems the way they want them, to your detriment.
[…]
Why aren’t you deciding how you want the economic system to work and then why aren’t you going door to door, in your block and in your neighborhood, and meeting people and making decisions about how you want things to look. And how you are going to get where you collectively want to be. You have the same equipment that the people who are making the decisions have: one head, two eyes, one brain, two hands, same internal organs. The only thing that is different is that you don’t see yourself as a ruler of this country. In a democracy, or even in a republic, the citizens are the rulers of this country. We don’t need to worry about who’s president or who’s in Congress and what they’re doing wrong.
The biggest neglect is the citizens haven’t been doing our job and if we start doing our job, we won’t have to worry about the elected officials. It is a huge mistake to expect elected officials to do what needs to be done in the interest of this country.
Suppose them we had waited for elected officials to de-segregate lunch counters and restaurants. Or desegregate interstate bus travel. Or get the right to vote in the south. 50 some odd years later, I’m convinced we’d still be waiting. And I promise you, if citizens don’t take the interests of this country into our own hands, learn how to use non-violence, and make the necessary social changes, 50 years from now, those changes will not be made. And God help our children and grandchildren if our citizens don’t step up to the plate. And I don’t mean a few. Or I don’t mean you should say, somebody ought to. Or they ought to. I mean you: the person you see in the mirror. That is your responsibility.
So just like your living unit can became uninhabitable, your city, your state, your country will become more and more uninhabitable. Right now, black men and boys can be shot in the back. No one held accountable. Particularly shot by law enforcement. The cities where this happens have become uninhabitable for them.
On charismatic leadership
There are lessons that can be learned from the movement of the sixties. One of them is that charismatic leadership, whether under Marcus Garvey, Elijah Mohammed, Malcom X, Martin King, Jesse Jackson, whomever: has not freed us and never will. I think that the freedom is adult men and women understanding that they are their own leaders.
It is rather dangerous to rely on charismatic leadership. The model of that one string person and many weak people, will sometimes produce a benevolent leader, like a Martin Luther King, but it also will produce a Hitler type.
There are lots of reasons why charismatic leadership is not the best way to go. Another is that it makes it really easy for the power structure-the opposition-to manipulate a moment through bribery, threats, and assassination. Movements really need to be issue led, rather than personality lead.
All of the accolades and excessive praise that people were giving Martin King, they thought they were doing something positive, but actually they were setting him up for assassination. And I don’t think we should make that mistake again. Like someone said, if I lead you into the promise land, somebody else can lead you back out again.
I think there is wisdom in that. I think we have to really change the attitude of American citizens into understanding that social change is the job of each of us. That’s the only way that I think we will emerge from this frightening period of American history, with citizens having a measure of rights.
Wow Diane Is right, 50 years from now, if Things doesn’t changes, this country will be destroyed and America will not be fit for any of us to live in...
Non-Violence movement’s for change ,,, wow,, I was born in 1949, I am now 71, all I have ever seen or heard about is nothing but violence, I suffer with bad heart, COPD, use oxygen daily, sometimes can’t get out of bed,,, my bad health is the results of vicious stress and violence and it came from the White House all the way down to the States that I live in, and all of my vicious treatment comes from WHITE FOLKS, mostly LAW ENFORCEMENT coming in and out of my house,, And Them Shining that government satellites CAMERAS through my Televisions all through my house...So Now I keep my TV’s off, but these idiots stay on my phone, Facebook and Twitter and RUclips ,, sometimes they shine that satellite camera through my Phone and it lights up my bedroom,,, Thank you for sharing these interviews about MLK,
It is always the right time to do o the right time thing
lol she rolled her eyes like 'wow... that's REALLY the FIRST question you ask me? About Dr. King? I'm Diane Nash bro!' atleast that's what I saw.
Diane Nash as a results of those 4 little black girls being murdered in Birmingham, is when Diane Nash and her husband drafted a bill to be signed for us to have a right to vote..
💐🌹🌷🌼🌸🌻🌺❣️
Hey Denzel, Spike, or AVA...the next BIOPIC is Diane Nash.
Rambo has no place in civilisation just like Gandhi had no place on Hitler's battlefield