"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."

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

"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…"

"You don't have to be a big shot to make a difference. You just have to care."

"The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest."