"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."

"The day-to-day work of fighting for civil rights was hard."

"I had felt for a long time that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so."

"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 had been pushed around all my life and felt at this moment that I couldn’t take it anymore."