"The driver said, 'If you don't stand up, I'm going to call the police and have you arrested.' I said, 'You may do that.'"

"The time for equality is always now."

"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons had taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."

"The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest."

"I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."