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.

Why do you all push us around?

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

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... No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving 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.

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.