you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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.

Black women are very capable of leading our organizations. I believe that firmly.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

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

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