“Never feel helpless…Never feel like there’s nothing you can do…With the right vision and the right kind of organization, amazing things can happen.”
“There wasn’t any fear, I just thought—this is your moment. Seize it!”
“White and colored children shall not be taught in the same school.”
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
“If we can organize the southern states for massive resistance to this order I think in time the rest of the country will really that racial integration is not going to be accepted in the South.”
“It is with the most profound regret that we have been compelled to take this action. We do not act in defiance of any law or any court. Above all we do not act with hostility toward the Negro people of Prince Edward County.”
“We may observe, with as much sadness as irony that outside of Africa, south of the Sahara where education is still a difficult challenge, the only places on earth known not to provide free pubic education are Communist China, North Vietnam, Sarawak, Singapore, British Honduras—and Prince Edward County Virginia.”