My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

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.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?

I liked learning but the challenge was that my mother's need to turn education into a competition was ruining the experience for me.

To kill nothing, that is love.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.