"Nobody can do it for you. You have to do it yourself."

"I had no special fear. It was more of a determination to no longer be treated as a second-class citizen."

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

"I would like to see the civil rights movement become a human rights movement."

"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…"