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.

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

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 thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

I'd see the bus pass every day… But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.