“Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.”

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

“All I was doing was trying to get home from work.”

“I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”

“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”

“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, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

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