"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 would rather be a free man, than a slave in paradise."

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

"I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."