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.

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, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual.

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