"I pray that we will all learn to live together in peace and harmony."

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

"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."

"I had felt for a long time that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so."

"I was treated as a human being. I was not treated as a Negro."