"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."

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

"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."

"I do not know how I will be remembered, but I hope that I will be remembered as a person who was concerned with human dignity and freedom."