"I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is any such thing as complete happiness."

"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…"

"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground."

"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free."

"There were times when it would have been easy to give up and give in, but I was determined to hold my ground."