she stood up by sitting down. I'm only standing here because of her.

When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that 'no, I wasn't,' and he told me if I did not stand up he was going to have me arrested. And, I told him to go on and have me arrested,

In it not easy to remain rational and normal mentally in such a setting where, even in our airport in Montgomery, there is a white waiting room... There are restroom facilities for white ladies and colored women, white men and colored men. We stand outside after being served at the same ticket counter instead of sitting on the inside.

I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.

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.