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

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

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.

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.

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.

I was just trying to let them know how I felt about being treated as a human being,