"Either you find a way to oppose evil, or the evil becomes part of you and you are part of it, and it winds itself around your soul like the arms of an octopus... If I did not oppose it, I was... responsible for its sins." - Anne Braden
Anne Braden stood up for her black neighbors in the south at a time when it was very unpopular to do so.
Braden rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement’s staunchest white allies.
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