Quotes About The Montgomery Bus Boycott

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

Joseph Lowery

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. I've spent a lot of time in prisons, first doing legal work and later, teaching.

Peter Orner

#6. If you persistently seek validation from others, you will inadvertently invalidate your own self-worth.

Auliq Ice

#7. Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle
before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime ... exempt[ion] ... from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

Thomas Sowell

#8. His pasty, white wang. Gross.

Penny Reid

#9. It's lucky King Damianos is at Delpha,' said Charls, uncertainly. 'There's no need to worry that the Prince is away so close to the Ascension.' 'Yes, this would be a terrible idea otherwise,' said Lamen.

C.S. Pacat

#10. Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.

John Banville

#11. Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. 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

#13. Fear is passion in a negative direction.

Debora M. Coty