Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
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.
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.
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.
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
I have never been what you would call just an integrationist. I know I've been called that... Integrating that bus wouldn't mean more equality. Even when there was segregation, there was plenty of int...
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, taught me when I was a very young child. The first school I attended was a small building that went fro...
People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, al...
I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.
You spend your whole lifetime in your occupation, actually making life clever, easy and convenient for white people. But when you have to get transportation home, you are denied an equal accommodation...
Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.
God has always given me the strength to say what is right.
At the time I was arrested I had no idea it would turn into this. It was just a day like any other day. The only thing that made it significant was that the masses of the people joined in.