When that white driver stepped back toward us, when he waved his hand and ordered us up and out of our seats, I felt a determination cover my body like a quilt on a winter night.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

I believe there is only one race - the human race.

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

Nothing in the Golden Rule says that others will treat us as we have treated them. It only says that we must treat others in a way that we would want to be treated.

One person can change the world.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

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

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

You need to make a decision - are you are an imitator or an innovator?

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Don't lie to a liar,

I'm from L.A., so I'm used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There's something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.

The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.

Beate the dog before the Lyon.

Like people and let them know it.

Happiness was my choice, and though it is hard-won, I am the only person who can stand in the way of it.

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.