Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they felt more free and at ease themselves. They thought that my action didn't just free blacks but them, too.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

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

As long as there is unemployment, war, crime and all things that go to the infliction of man's inhumanity to man, regardless - there is much to be done, and people need to work together.

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

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

I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.