Bus Quote by Claudette Colvin

You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the back of…

— Michel Martin

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said…

— John Lewis

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

— Joseph Lowery

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them.…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“There are, of course, numerous and complex reasons why the Montgomery bus boycott succeeded and why it became the spark for a movement that…

— Charles Duhigg

The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The anniversary of the Montgomery boycott was being celebrated, and the handbill that was out, and all whatever literature that was circulated, didn't say…

— Ella Baker

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin…

— Ramsey Clark

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

— Aisha Hinds

I wanted the young African-American girls also on the bus to know that they had a right to be there, because they had paid…

— Claudette Colvin

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

— Julian Bond

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women.…

— John Lewis