"There is no future in any job where you don't have the right to be treated with respect."

"I felt that I had a right to stay where I was. I just felt that I had been there long enough, and I was not going to move."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free and wanted others to be free."

"I do not know how I will be remembered, but I hope that I will be remembered as a person who was concerned with human dignity and freedom."

"I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black."