When it's just us, I can be myself and know you'll love and understand me no matter what. You don't want anything from me except my happiness.

During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

There is no reason why a nation as rich as ours should be blighted by poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.