"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons had taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."

"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…"

"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."

"I believe in the power of the people to make change."

"I had no special fear. It was more a decision that I had made, that I would not be moved."