Marvin Gatch: “I think all of the volunteers for a period of time got some feeling, a bit of a feeling of what it's like to be black in a white society, a very frightening at that time white society, a very unjust society where you could be slapped, jailed, killed literally with very little if any recourse, had no concept of anything like that and my guess is 99% of the volunteers who went down there didn't either.” 

Richard  Beymer: “My experience within that war, that was a part of it, that's what it was all kind of sitting on was people getting their heads knocked in and skulls broken open and shot and murdered and stuff, but that wasn't my experience. My experience was also the opposite, incredible sweetness, joy, learning. Yeah, just quite extraordinary. I suppose you hear people who have been in a war like soldiers and sometimes they say, yes there was that but I had buddies and we had this and it was extraordinary. And so there was, you know, we were in a war in a sense but a lot of joyousness.” 

Patti Miller: “The two communities black and white really did come together. We had, that’s all we had and we were all working for the same purpose. And I don’t know if there has ever been a time since then that that’s come about in such an intimate way. I mean, we were living together, we were eating together, we were meeting together, we were sharing the same risks together.”