"Nobody can do it for you. You have to do it yourself."

"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 struggle for freedom and justice is a never-ending one."

"The time for equality is always now."

"The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became."