Boycott Quote by Michel Martin

The Montgomery Bus Boycott began in December 1955, and by 1956 NAACP leaders came to me and asked me to be part of a…

— Claudette Colvin

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

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

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

Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.

— Claudette Colvin

Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she…

— Joseph Lowery

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed…

— Richard Pryor

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave…

— Kinky Friedman

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

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

— Mary Frances Berry

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

— Joseph Lowery