It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

There is no future without education.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

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.

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.

You cannot always control the powers-that-be. You just have to have faith and stand by the things you believe in.

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.