Quotes About The Bus Boycott

#1. There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

Marian Wright Edelman

#2. I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

Joseph Lowery

#3. I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

Laura Bell Bundy

#4. To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

Cecil Rhodes

#5. The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.

Troy Jackson

#6. Wherever you go in the galaxy, you can find a food business, a house-building business, a war business, a peace business, a governing business, and so forth. And, of course, a God business, which is called 'religion,' and which is a particularly reprehensible line of endeavor.

Robert Sheckley

#7. And at year's end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset's end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet.

Jo Walton

#8. Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.

Dean Karnazes

#9. One thing work gives
is the joy of not working,
a minute here or there
when I stand and only breathe,
receiving the good of the air.
It comes back. Good work done
comes back into the mind,
a free breath drawn.

Wendell Berry

#10. Writing is prayer.

Franz Kafka

#11. I am an industry.

Thalia

#12. His doctors said he was, in many ways, the most remarkable patient they'd ever seen. His bravery, so stark and real, that even those used to seeing people in dire circumstances were moved by his example.

Bob Costas

#13. American Heartbreak
I am the American heartbreak
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.

Langston Hughes

#14. There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

Douglas Brinkley

#15. I think "immoral" is probably the wrong word to use ... I prefer the word "unethical."

Ivan Boesky

#16. History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.

Hugh Evans