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

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.

I had felt for a long time that, if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene -- just a very special person,

Whites would accuse you of causing trouble when all you were doing was acting like a normal human being instead of cringing.

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 integration in the South, but it was for the benefit and convenience of the white person, not us.