Without a vision the people perish, but without courage dreams die.

People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

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.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.

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

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.