"I knew someone had to take the first step and I was just one of those people."

"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 not old, al…"

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

"I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front."