"I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't th…"

"God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me."

"From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up …"

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

"People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically…"

"I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time... the…"

"Thank you very much. I honor my late husband Raymond Parks, other Freedom Fighters, men of goodwill who could not be …"

"I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home."

"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 cust…"

"Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my g…"