If you want to be respected for your actions, then your behavior must be above reproach. If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble, and trusted, this is recognized by others.

I want to be treated like a human being.

I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.

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

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.

Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.