Famous quotes containing the words non-violent coordinating committee, student, non-violent and/or committee:
“Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every bit as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro.... this is no more a man’s world than it is a white world.”
—Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, African American civil rights organization. SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement)
“In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“The small creatures chirp thinly through the dust, through the night.
O mother
What shall I cry?
We demand a committee, a representative committee, a committee of investigation
RESIGN RESIGN RESIGN”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)