"People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was tired of gi…"

"Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome."

"The day-to-day work of fighting for civil rights was hard."

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

"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."