"I was not the only person who had been mistreated and humiliated. I was not the only person who had been arrested for this sort of thing. I was just one of many."

"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…"

"It was not pre-arranged. It was a spontaneous decision."

"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."

"The only way to stop discrimination is to stand up to it."