I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

All I was trying to do was get home from work.

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.