"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…"

"Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it."

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

"The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed, I suppose."

"There were a lot of times when we didn't have much to eat. We had to do without a lot of things. But we never gave up hope."