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

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

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

I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way.

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.

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.