"We should not have to fight for what is right."

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

"The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became."

"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 had no idea when I refused to give up my seat on that Montgomery bus that my small action would help put an end to the segregation laws in the South."