"You don't have to be a big shot to make a difference. You just have to care."

"We still have a long way to go, but we must never give up."

"I had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore. When I asked the driver why he was treating me like this, he said, 'I'll have you arrested.'"

"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…"

"There were a lot of times when we didn't have much to eat. We had to do without a lot of things. But we never gave up hope."