Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider RemembersAllen & Unwin, 2002 - 329 strán (strany) Written by one of the passengers, this book recounts the story of Australia's historic Freedom Ride--the 1965 bus journey of 29 Sydney University students to fight racism. First-person accounts from fellow riders illustrate the challenges along the ride, including confrontations, intense street debates, and physical violence. Included are interviews from local residents, both black and white, who met the bus and struggled with the consequences. Pages from the author's diary are included. |
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Getting ready | 35 |
On the way to Walgett | 62 |
High noon at Walgett | 83 |
Moree Australias Little Rock? | 114 |
Clash at Moree | 143 |
Stirring up trouble The coastal towns | 171 |
Impact | 210 |
More Freedom Rides | 240 |
Memory and meaning | 274 |
Whatever happened to? | 294 |
Select bibliography | 313 |
A note on sources | 317 |
Index | 320 |
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Strana 43 - We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct-action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never.
Strana 44 - We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
Strana 44 - One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality standing up for the best in the American dream and...
Strana 13 - The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws.
Strana 44 - I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order...
Strana 45 - Council (SRC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC).
Strana 44 - Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically feels that he can set the time-table for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season.
Strana 37 - We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome some day. Oh, deep in my heart I do believe We shall overcome some day.
Strana 25 - We need help, not exploitation, We want freedom, not frustration; Not control, but self-reliance, Independence, not compliance, Not rebuff, but education, Self-respect, not resignation. Free us from a mean subjection, From a bureaucrat Protection. Let's forget the old-time slavers: Give us fellowship, not favours; Encouragement, not prohibitions, Homes, not settlements and missions.
Strana 43 - ... nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct-action program is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation.