Description
Letter from Norman J. Whitney to Patricia Stephens praising her courage and noting the power of nonviolence. The letter includes quotes from Gandhi and Jesus.
Creator
Whitney, Norman J.
To
Due, Patricia Stephens, 1939-2012
American Friends Service Committee Incorporated
Twenty South Twelfth Street
Philadelphia 7, Pennsylvania
Telephone Rittenhouse 6-9372
May 3, 1960
Patricia Stephens
c/o Leon County Jail
Tallahassee, Florida
Dear Patricia Stephens:
I want to express my appreciation of the quiet, cheerful courage with which you are demonstrating the power of nonviolence in our own society.
Gandhi wrote, "The goal is Truth and the way to it is nonviolence". Jesus said, "Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the earth".
May you continue to have the faith and the strength to carry on in love the struggle for freedom, not only for yourselves, but since freedom is indivisible, for all of us.
I salute you and your fellows.
Sincerely,
[Sincerely] Norman Whitney
Norman J. Whitney
NJW/jc
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