Diana Collins
Dame Diana Clavering Collins, DBE (b. 13 August 1917 - d. 23 May 2003) was the widow of Dr John Collins, the fiery Canon of St Paul's Cathedral who earned an international reputation for his leadership of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British campaign against apartheid in South Africa. She was his partner in these enterprises and in other activities.
She was born as Diana Clavering Elliot at Stutton Hall, Suffolk. She gave up reading English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, to marry John Collins, then Dean of Oriel College and later Chairman of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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“I don’t have any doubts that there will be a place for progressive white people in this country in the future. I think the paranoia common among white people is very unfounded. I have always organized my life so that I could focus on political work. That’s all I want to do, and that’s all that makes me happy.”
—Hettie V., South African white anti-apartheid activist and feminist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 21, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)
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