"Our freedom is not complete until all people are free."

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

"I felt that I had a right to stay where I was."

"I was a person with dignity and self-respect, and I should not set my sights lower than anybody else just because I was black."

"I had to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen."