I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.

There is no future without education.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

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

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 had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.