There were times when it would have been easy to fall apart or to go in the opposite direction, but somehow I felt that if I took on more step, someone would come along to join me.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

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.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

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

When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.